The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 28, sentence 97

"My lord," said the steward, "I beg a thousand pardons for interrupting you, but what I have long foreseen has taken place.

Who acts: lord · What happens: say, beg, interrupt, foresee, take · To what, where: steward, thousand pardons, you, place · 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), 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	_	3 lord	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	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 steward	det
8	steward	steward	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 beg	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 beg	punct
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 beg	nsubj
12	beg	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 steward	acl
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 thousand	det
14	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 pardons	nummod
15	pardons	pardon	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 beg	obj
16	for	for	SCONJ	_	17 interrupting	mark
17	interrupting	interrupt	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 beg	advcl
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 interrupting	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 what	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 what	cc
21	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	27 taken	nsubj:pass
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 foreseen	nsubj
23	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 foreseen	aux
24	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	25 foreseen	advmod
25	foreseen	foresee	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	21 what	acl:relcl
26	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 taken	aux
27	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 said	ccomp
28	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 taken	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	My lord	the steward		tree rules
2	beg speech: request in a quote	present	My lord = lord	thousand pardons		vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent pardon=Recipient
3	interrupt in a quote	gerund	My lord = lord not said here	you		tree rules
4	foresee in a quote	present · perfect	My lord = lord		long property	vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	take in a quote	present · perfect · passive		place		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme place=Destination

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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