The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 27, sentence 72

Let us sit down, and I will tell you all about it."

Who acts: you, us, I · What happens: let, sit down, tell · To what, where: us, you · 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, us, 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	Let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	1 Let	obj
3	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Let	xcomp
4	down	down	ADP	_	3 sit	compound:prt
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 tell	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 tell	cc
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 tell	nsubj
8	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 tell	aux
9	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Let	conj
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 tell	iobj
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 you	nmod:unmarked
12	about	about	ADP	_	13 it	case
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 tell	obl
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Let	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	let	imperative	you not said here	us			tree rules
2	sit down	infinitive	us not said here				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	tell speech: assert	future	I		you	about joy	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent you=Recipient about it=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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