The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 24, sentence 2

After the first exchange of greetings the vizir said:

Who acts: vizir · What happens: say, exchange · To what, where: greetings · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (vizir), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	After	after	ADP	_	4 exchange	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 exchange	det
3	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 exchange	amod
4	exchange	exchange	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	obl
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 greetings	case
6	greetings	greeting	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 exchange	nmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 vizir	det
8	vizir	vizir	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the vizir				after the first exchange of greetings		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	exchange			greetings					nom exchange «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 128 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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