The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 26, sentence 41

You had better therefore take a good rest whilst I go to see some friends, and as the time is near for the arrival of the ship of which I told you I will make inquiries about it, and try to bespeak a passage for you."

Who acts: You, I · What happens: have, take, go, see, be, tell · To what, where: good rest, friends, you, inquiries, passage · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, I), 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	better	well	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 take	advmod
4	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	5 take	advmod
5	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 had	xcomp
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 rest	det
7	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 rest	amod
8	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 take	obj
9	whilst	whilst	SCONJ	_	11 go	mark
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 go	nsubj
11	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 take	advcl
12	to	to	PART	_	13 see	mark
13	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 go	xcomp
14	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	15 friends	det
15	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 see	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 arrival	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 arrival	cc
18	as	as	ADP	_	20 time	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 time	det
20	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 arrival	obl
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 arrival	cop
22	near	near	ADV	_	25 arrival	advmod
23	for	for	ADP	_	25 arrival	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 arrival	det
25	arrival	arrival	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 take	parataxis
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 ship	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 ship	det
28	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 arrival	nmod
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 which	case
30	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 told	obl
31	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 told	nsubj
32	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 ship	acl:relcl
33	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	32 told	iobj
34	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	36 make	nsubj
35	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 make	aux
36	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 told	ccomp
37	inquiries	inquiry	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 make	obj
38	about	about	ADP	_	39 it	case
39	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 inquiries	nmod
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 try	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 try	cc
42	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 take	conj
43	to	to	PART	_	44 bespeak	mark
44	bespeak	bespeak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 try	xcomp
45	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	46 passage	det
46	passage	passage	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 bespeak	obj
47	for	for	ADP	_	48 you	case
48	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	44 bespeak	obl
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct
50	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	You					tree rules
2	take	infinitive	You not said here	a good rest			therefore, well property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rest=Theme
3	go	present	I					vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	see	to-infinitive	I not said here	some friends				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer friend=Stimulus
5	is	present				time	for the arrival; of the ship; near property	tree rules
6	tell speech: assert	past	I		you		of the ship	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic
7	make	future	I	inquiries			about ship	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent inquiry=Product
8	try	infinitive	You not said here					vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
9	bespeak not said to happen	to-infinitive	You not said here	a passage			for you	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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