The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 25, sentence 109

Camaralzaman told him all without disguise, and ended by inquiring the shortest way to his father's capital. "

Who acts: Camaralzaman · What happens: tell, end, inquire · To what, where: Prince, shortest way · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Camaralzaman), 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	Camaralzaman	Camaralzaman	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 told	nsubj
2	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 told	iobj
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 him	det
5	without	without	ADP	_	6 disguise	case
6	disguise	disguise	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 told	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 ended	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 ended	cc
9	ended	end	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 told	parataxis
10	by	by	SCONJ	_	11 inquiring	mark
11	inquiring	inquire	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 ended	advcl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 way	det
13	shortest	short	ADJ	Degree=Sup	14 way	amod
14	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 inquiring	obj
15	to	to	ADP	_	19 capital	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 father	nmod:poss
17	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 capital	nmod:poss
18	's	's	PART	_	17 father	case
19	capital	capital	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 inquiring	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 told	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	Camaralzaman		Prince	without disguise	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
2	end	past					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	inquire speech: other	gerund		the shortest way		to Prince's father's capital	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent way=Recipient

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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