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The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 24, sentence 85

Marzavan replied that if he knew what the illness was he might possibly be able to suggest a remedy, on which the vizir related to him the whole history of Prince Camaralzaman.

Who acts: Marzavan, vizir, illness · What happens: reply, know, be, suggest · To what, where: remedy

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 (Marzavan, vizir, illness), 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

nsubjmarkmarknsubjadvclobjdetnsubjcopnsubjauxadvmodcopacl:relclmarkxcompdetobjpunctcaseobldetobl:unmarkedacl:relclcaseobldetamodconjcasenmod:descnmodpunctrootMarzavanPROPNrepliedVERBthatSCONJifSCONJhePRONknewVERBwhatPRONtheDETillnessNOUNwasAUXhePRONmightAUXpossiblyADVbeAUXableADJtoPARTsuggestVERBaDETremedyNOUN,PUNCTonADPwhichPRONtheDETvizirNOUNrelatedADJtoADPhimPRONtheDETwholeADJhistoryNOUNofADPPrincePROPNCamaralzamanPROPN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1MarzavanMarzavanPROPNNumber=Sing2 repliednsubj
2repliedreplyVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
3thatthatSCONJ_6 knewmark
4ififSCONJ_6 knewmark
5hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs6 knewnsubj
6knewknowVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin2 repliedadvcl
7whatwhatPRONPronType=Int6 knewobj
8thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art9 illnessdet
9illnessillnessNOUNNumber=Sing15 ablensubj
10wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin15 ablecop
11hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs15 ablensubj
12mightmightAUXVerbForm=Fin15 ableaux
13possiblypossiblyADV_15 ableadvmod
14bebeAUXVerbForm=Inf15 ablecop
15ableableADJDegree=Pos7 whatacl:relcl
16totoPART_17 suggestmark
17suggestsuggestVERBVerbForm=Inf15 ablexcomp
18aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art19 remedydet
19remedyremedyNOUNNumber=Sing17 suggestobj
20,,PUNCT_25 relatedpunct
21ononADP_22 whichcase
22whichwhichPRONPronType=Rel25 relatedobl
23thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art24 vizirdet
24vizirvizirNOUNNumber=Sing25 relatedobl:unmarked
25relatedrelatedADJDegree=Pos19 remedyacl:relcl
26totoADP_27 himcase
27himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs25 relatedobl
28thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art30 historydet
29wholewholeADJDegree=Pos30 historyamod
30historyhistoryNOUNNumber=Sing25 relatedconj
31ofofADP_33 Camaralzamancase
32PrincePrincePROPNNumber=Sing33 Camaralzamannmod:desc
33CamaralzamanCamaralzamanPROPNNumber=Sing30 historynmod
34..PUNCT_2 repliedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1reply speech: assertpastMarzavanvn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2know a condition, not said to happenpastvizirvn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus
3ismight · pastthe illnessable, possibly propertytree rules
4suggest speech: suggestto-infinitivethe illness not said herea remedyvn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent remedy=Topic

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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