The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 28, sentence 69

"Madam," replied the vizir, "what you say is very just, but I cannot pardon Noureddin before I have mortified him as he deserves."

Who acts: Madam, you, vizir · What happens: reply, be, say, not pardon, mortify, deserve · To what, where: vizir, Noureddin · 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 (Madam, you, vizir), 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 Madam	punct
2	Madam	madam	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 replied	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Madam	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Madam	punct
5	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 vizir	det
7	vizir	vizir	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 replied	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 what	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 what	punct
10	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 replied	advcl
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 say	nsubj
12	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 what	acl:relcl
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 what	cop
14	very	very	ADV	_	15 just	advmod
15	just	just	ADV	_	13 is	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 pardon	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 pardon	cc
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 pardon	nsubj
19	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 pardon	aux
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 pardon	advmod
21	pardon	pardon	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 replied	parataxis
22	Noureddin	Noureddin	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 pardon	obj
23	before	before	SCONJ	_	26 mortified	mark
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 mortified	nsubj
25	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 mortified	aux
26	mortified	mortify	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	21 pardon	advcl
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 mortified	obj
28	as	as	SCONJ	_	30 deserves	mark
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 deserves	nsubj
30	deserves	deserve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 mortified	advcl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 pardon	punct
32	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 pardon	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	reply speech: assert	past	Madam	the vizir	tree rules
2	is a in a quote	present	Madam not said here		tree rules
3	say speech: assert in a quote	present	you		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	not pardon in a quote	can	Madam	Noureddin	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent noureddin=Theme
5	mortify in a quote	present · perfect	Madam	vizir	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer
6	deserve in a quote	present	vizir		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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