The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 29, sentence 15

Hagi Hassan, then closing the door upon her, began to offer her for sale--calling out: "Who will bid 4,000 gold pieces for the Persian slave?"

Who acts: Hagi · What happens: close, begin, offer, call out, bid · To what, where: door, Hagi, 4,000 gold pieces · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hagi), 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	Hagi	Hagi	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 began	nsubj
2	Hassan	Hassan	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Hagi	flat
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 closing	punct
4	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 closing	advmod
5	closing	close	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Hagi	acl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 door	det
7	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 closing	obj
8	upon	upon	ADP	_	9 her	case
9	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 closing	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Hagi	punct
11	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	to	to	PART	_	13 offer	mark
13	offer	offer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 began	xcomp
14	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 offer	obj
15	for	for	ADP	_	16 sale	case
16	sale	sale	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 offer	obl
17	--	--	PUNCT	_	18 calling	punct
18	calling	call	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 began	advcl
19	out	out	ADP	_	18 calling	compound:prt
20	:	:	PUNCT	_	24 bid	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	24 bid	punct
22	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 bid	nsubj
23	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 bid	aux
24	bid	bid	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 calling	advcl
25	4,000	4,000	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	27 pieces	nummod
26	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 pieces	compound
27	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 bid	obj
28	for	for	ADP	_	31 slave	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 slave	det
30	Persian	persian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 slave	amod
31	slave	slave	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 bid	obl
32	?	?	PUNCT	_	24 bid	punct
33	"	"	PUNCT	_	24 bid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	close	gerund	Hagi not said here	the door	then	upon Hagi	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Patient
2	begin	past	Hagi				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	offer	to-infinitive	Hagi not said here	Hagi		for sale goal	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent she=Theme for sale=Goal
4	call out speech: ask	gerund	Hagi not said here				vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	bid in a quote	future		4,000 gold pieces		for the Persian slave	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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