The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 27, sentence 36

Why, I never even heard of him before, and never set foot in his kingdom!" was the answer.

Who acts: I, debtor · What happens: not hear, not set, be · To what, where: foot, kingdom, answer · 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 (I, debtor), 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 heard	punct
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 heard	nsubj
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 heard	advmod
5	even	even	ADV	_	6 heard	advmod
6	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Why	parataxis
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 him	case
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 heard	obl
9	before	before	ADV	_	6 heard	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 set	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 set	cc
12	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	13 set	advmod
13	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 answer	csubj
14	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 set	obj
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 kingdom	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 kingdom	nmod:poss
17	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 set	obl
18	!	!	PUNCT	_	13 set	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 set	punct
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 answer	cop
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 answer	det
22	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 heard	conj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Why	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not hear	participle	I			of captain; before property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of he=Stimulus
2	not set	infinitive		foot	captain's kingdom		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent foot=Theme in kingdom=Destination
3	be speech: assert in a quote	past	a debtor = debtor not said here	the answer			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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