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The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 29, sentence 31

Calling him to me, I said: "Noureddin, I will give you 10,000 gold pieces for your slave, whom I will present to the king.

Who acts: I · What happens: call, say, give, present · To what, where: Majesty, me, Noureddin, 10,000 gold pieces, you, king · 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 (I), 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

advclobjcaseoblpunctnsubjpunctpunctoblpunctnsubjauxconjiobjnummodcompoundobjcasenmod:possnmodpunctobjnsubjauxacl:relclcasedetoblpunctrootCallingVERBhimPRONtoADPmePRON,PUNCTIPRONsaidVERB:PUNCT"PUNCTNoureddinPROPN,PUNCTIPRONwillAUXgiveVERByouPRON10,000NUMgoldNOUNpiecesNOUNforADPyourPRONslaveNOUN,PUNCTwhomPRONIPRONwillAUXpresentVERBtoADPtheDETkingNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1CallingcallVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part7 saidadvcl
2himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs1 Callingobj
3totoADP_4 mecase
4meIPRONCase=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs1 Callingobl
5,,PUNCT_1 Callingpunct
6IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs7 saidnsubj
7saidsayVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
8::PUNCT_10 Noureddinpunct
9""PUNCT_10 Noureddinpunct
10NoureddinNoureddinPROPNNumber=Sing7 saidobl
11,,PUNCT_14 givepunct
12IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs14 givensubj
13willwillAUXVerbForm=Fin14 giveaux
14givegiveVERBVerbForm=Inf7 saidconj
15youyouPRONCase=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs14 giveiobj
1610,00010000NUMNumForm=Digit NumType=Card18 piecesnummod
17goldgoldNOUNNumber=Sing18 piecescompound
18piecespieceNOUNNumber=Plur14 giveobj
19forforADP_21 slavecase
20youryourPRONCase=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs21 slavenmod:poss
21slaveslaveNOUNNumber=Sing18 piecesnmod
22,,PUNCT_26 presentpunct
23whomwhomPRONPronType=Rel26 presentobj
24IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs26 presentnsubj
25willwillAUXVerbForm=Fin26 presentaux
26presentpresentVERBVerbForm=Inf18 piecesacl:relcl
27totoADP_29 kingcase
28thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art29 kingdet
29kingkingNOUNNumber=Sing26 presentobl
30..PUNCT_7 saidpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1callgerundI not said hereMajestymevn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Topic to i=Recipient
2say speech: assertpastINoureddinvn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3give in a quotefutureI10,000 gold piecesyoufor your slavevn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent you=Recipient piece=Theme for slave=Asset
4present in a quotefutureI10,000 gold piecesthe kingvn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent whom=Theme to king=Recipient

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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