The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 24, sentence 69

Needless to say that one of the first things his mother told him was the sad condition of the princess, his foster-sister.

Who acts: mother, one · What happens: say, tell, be · To what, where: first things, son, sad condition · 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 (mother, one), 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	Needless	needless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	to	to	PART	_	3 say	mark
3	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Needless	csubj
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 condition	mark
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 condition	nsubj
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 things	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 things	det
8	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	9 things	amod
9	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 one	nmod
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 mother	nmod:poss
11	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 told	nsubj
12	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 things	acl:relcl
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 told	iobj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 condition	cop
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 condition	det
16	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 condition	amod
17	condition	condition	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 say	ccomp
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 princess	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 princess	det
20	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 condition	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 sister	punct
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 sister	nmod:poss
23	foster	foster	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 sister	compound
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 foster	punct
25	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 condition	conj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Needless	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	to-infinitive					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	tell speech: assert	past	son's mother	the first things not said here	son		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
3	is a	past	one of the first things	the sad condition and son's foster sister		of the princess	tree rules

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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