The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 24, sentence 40

"Tell me," she cried, "where is the young man I love so dearly, and who slept near me last night?"

Who acts: you, Schahzaman · What happens: tell, cry, be, love, sleep · To what, where: Schahzaman, young man · 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 (you, Schahzaman), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Tell	punct
2	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 Tell	iobj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 cried	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 cried	punct
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 cried	nsubj
7	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Tell	advcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 man	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 where	punct
10	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	14 man	advmod
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 man	cop
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 man	det
13	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 man	amod
14	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cried	obl
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 love	nsubj
16	love	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 man	acl:relcl
17	so	so	ADV	_	18 dearly	advmod
18	dearly	dearly	ADV	_	16 love	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 slept	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 slept	cc
21	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 slept	nsubj
22	slept	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 cried	conj
23	near	near	ADP	_	24 me	case
24	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 slept	obl
25	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 night	amod
26	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 slept	obl:unmarked
27	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 Tell	punct
28	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert in a quote	imperative	you not said here		Schahzaman			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
2	cry speech: express	past	Schahzaman					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is a in a quote	present		the young man				tree rules
4	love in a quote	present	Schahzaman	the young man not said here			dearly property	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus
5	sleep in a quote	past				night	near Schahzaman	vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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