The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 28, sentence 44

"Would to heaven," exclaimed the wife of the vizir, "that what you say were true; but Noureddin has deceived you, and his father will sacrifice him in vengeance for the wrong he has done."

Who acts: wife, you, Noureddin, father · What happens: exclaim, say, be, deceive, sacrifice, do · To what, where: that, you, vizir, vengeance · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife, you, Noureddin, father), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Would	punct
2	Would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 exclaimed	aux
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 heaven	case
4	heaven	heaven	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Would	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Would	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 exclaimed	punct
7	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 wife	det
9	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 exclaimed	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 vizir	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 vizir	det
12	vizir	vizir	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 wife	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 exclaimed	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 exclaimed	punct
15	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 say	obj
16	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	18 say	obj
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 say	nsubj
18	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 exclaimed	parataxis
19	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 say	ccomp
20	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 were	xcomp
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 deceived	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 deceived	cc
23	Noureddin	Noureddin	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 deceived	nsubj
24	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 deceived	aux
25	deceived	deceive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 exclaimed	parataxis
26	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 deceived	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 sacrifice	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 sacrifice	cc
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 father	nmod:poss
30	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 sacrifice	nsubj
31	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 sacrifice	aux
32	sacrifice	sacrifice	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 deceived	conj
33	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 sacrifice	obj
34	in	in	ADP	_	35 vengeance	case
35	vengeance	vengeance	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 sacrifice	obl
36	for	for	ADP	_	38 wrong	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 wrong	det
38	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 sacrifice	advcl
39	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 done	nsubj
40	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	41 done	aux
41	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	38 wrong	xcomp
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 exclaimed	punct
43	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 exclaimed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	exclaim speech: express	would	the wife of the vizir				vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	say speech: assert in a quote	present	you	that			tree rules
3	be in a quote	past				true property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	deceive in a quote	present · perfect	Noureddin	you			vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient
5	sacrifice in a quote	future	vizir's father	vizir	vengeance		vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent he=Theme
6	do in a quote	present · perfect	father				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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