The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 28, sentence 58

"My lord," said his wife, "I am quite aware of Saouy's baseness, and that he is capable of playing you this malicious trick.

Who acts: lord, Saouy · What happens: say, be, play · To what, where: wife, malicious trick, you · 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 (lord, Saouy), 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	_	6 said	punct
2	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 lord	nmod:poss
3	lord	lord	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 lord	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 lord	punct
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 wife	nmod:poss
8	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 aware	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 aware	punct
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 aware	nsubj
12	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 aware	cop
13	quite	quite	ADV	_	14 aware	advmod
14	aware	aware	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 said	ccomp
15	of	of	ADP	_	18 baseness	case
16	Saouy	Saouy	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 baseness	nmod:poss
17	's	's	PART	_	16 Saouy	case
18	baseness	baseness	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 aware	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 capable	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 capable	cc
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 capable	mark
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 capable	nsubj
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 capable	cop
24	capable	capable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 aware	conj
25	of	of	SCONJ	_	26 playing	mark
26	playing	play	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 capable	advcl
27	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 playing	obj
28	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	30 trick	det
29	malicious	malicious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 trick	amod
30	trick	trick	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 playing	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	My lord	lord's wife			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent wife=Topic
2	is in a quote	present	My lord = lord			of Saouy's baseness; aware property	tree rules
3	is in a quote	present	Saouy			capable property	tree rules
4	play in a quote	gerund	Saouy not said here	this malicious trick	you		vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary trick=Theme

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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