The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 29, sentence 19

Hagi Hassan then sought Noureddin, and told him that his slave was going far below her value, and that if Saouy bought her he was capable of not paying the money. "

Who acts: Hagi, slave, Saouy, Noureddin · What happens: seek, tell, go, buy, be, not pay · To what, where: Noureddin, value, Hagi, money · 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, slave, Saouy, Noureddin), 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	4 sought	nsubj
2	Hassan	Hassan	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Hagi	flat
3	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 sought	advmod
4	sought	seek	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	Noureddin	Noureddin	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 sought	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 told	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 told	cc
8	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sought	conj
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 told	iobj
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 going	mark
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 slave	nmod:poss
12	slave	slave	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 going	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 going	aux
14	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 told	ccomp
15	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	14 going	advmod
16	below	below	ADP	_	18 value	case
17	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 value	nmod:poss
18	value	value	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 going	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 capable	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 capable	cc
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 capable	mark
22	if	if	SCONJ	_	24 bought	mark
23	Saouy	Saouy	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 bought	nsubj
24	bought	buy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 capable	advcl
25	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 bought	iobj
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 capable	nsubj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 capable	cop
28	capable	capable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 sought	conj
29	of	of	SCONJ	_	31 paying	mark
30	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	31 paying	advmod
31	paying	pay	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	28 capable	advcl
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 money	det
33	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 paying	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sought	punct
35	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 sought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	seek	past	Hagi	Noureddin			then		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent noureddin=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	past	Hagi not said here		Noureddin				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
3	go	past · progressive	Noureddin's slave			Hagi's value		far property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme below value=Location
4	buy a condition, not said to happen	past	Saouy		Hagi				vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
5	is	past	Noureddin					capable property	tree rules
6	not pay	gerund	Noureddin not said here	the money					vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Asset
7	value		Hagi						nom value «cognition transitive»: poss=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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