The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 29, sentence 20

What you must do," he said, "is to pretend that you had no real intention of selling your slave, and only swore you would in a fit of anger against her.

Who acts: you, Noureddin, real intention · What happens: do, say, be, have, sell, swear · To what, where: real intention, slave, fit · 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 (you, Noureddin, real intention), 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 said	obj
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 do	nsubj
3	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 do	aux
4	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 What	acl:relcl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 said	nsubj
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 pretend	cop
12	to	to	PART	_	13 pretend	mark
13	pretend	pretend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	ccomp
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 had	mark
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 had	nsubj
16	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 pretend	ccomp
17	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	19 intention	det
18	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 intention	amod
19	intention	intention	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 had	obj
20	of	of	SCONJ	_	21 selling	mark
21	selling	sell	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	19 intention	acl
22	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 slave	nmod:poss
23	slave	slave	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 selling	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 swore	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 swore	cc
26	only	only	ADV	_	27 swore	advmod
27	swore	swear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 said	parataxis
28	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	29 would	nsubj
29	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 swore	ccomp
30	in	in	ADP	_	32 fit	case
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 fit	det
32	fit	fit	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 swore	obl
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 anger	case
34	anger	anger	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 fit	nmod
35	against	against	ADP	_	36 her	case
36	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 anger	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	do	must	you				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert in a quote	past	Noureddin				tree rules
3	is	present				pretend property	tree rules
4	have	past	you	no real intention			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent intention=Patient
5	sell	gerund	no real intention not said here	your slave			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent slave=Theme
6	swear	past			a fit of anger against Hagi		vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=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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