The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 27, sentence 3

Have them unloaded and we will make our bargain at once, and tell the other merchants to let me see all their best wares before showing them to other people."

Who acts: you, olives, we, me, our · What happens: have, unload, make, tell, let, see · To what, where: olives, bargain, other merchants, me, best wares, wares · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, olives, we, me), 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	Have	have	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Have	obj
3	unloaded	unload	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Have	xcomp
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 make	cc
5	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 make	nsubj
6	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 make	aux
7	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Have	conj
8	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 bargain	nmod:poss
9	bargain	bargain	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 make	obj
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 once	case
11	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	7 make	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 tell	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 tell	cc
14	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Have	parataxis
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 merchants	det
16	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 merchants	amod
17	merchants	merchant	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 tell	obj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 let	mark
19	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 tell	ccomp
20	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 let	obj
21	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 let	xcomp
22	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	25 wares	det:predet
23	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 wares	nmod:poss
24	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	25 wares	amod
25	wares	ware	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 see	obj
26	before	before	SCONJ	_	27 showing	mark
27	showing	show	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 see	advcl
28	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 showing	obj
29	to	to	ADP	_	31 people	case
30	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 people	amod
31	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 showing	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Have	punct
33	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	have	imperative	you not said here	olives = olive		tree rules
2	unload	participle	olives = olive not said here			vn wipe_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent
3	make	future	we	our bargain		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bargain=Product
4	tell speech: assert	infinitive		the other merchants		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent merchant=Recipient clause=Topic
5	let not said to happen	to-infinitive		me		tree rules
6	see	infinitive	me not said here	olives's best wares		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ware=Stimulus
7	show	gerund	me not said here	wares = ware	other people	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Topic to people=Recipient
8	bargain		our			nom bargain «communication intransitive»: poss=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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