The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 29, sentence 33

Bad old man," he exclaimed, "rather than sell my slave to you I would give her to a Jew." "

Who acts: Bad old man, I · What happens: exclaim, sell, give · To what, where: slave, you, 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 (Bad old man, 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 man	amod
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 man	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 exclaimed	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 man	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 exclaimed	punct
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 exclaimed	nsubj
7	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 sell	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 sell	punct
10	rather	rather	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	12 sell	cc
11	than	than	ADP	_	10 rather	fixed
12	sell	sell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 exclaimed	ccomp
13	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 slave	nmod:poss
14	slave	slave	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sell	obj
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 you	case
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 sell	obl
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 give	nsubj
18	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 give	aux
19	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 sell	parataxis
20	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 give	iobj
21	to	to	ADP	_	23 Jew	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 Jew	det
23	Jew	Jew	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 give	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 sell	punct
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 sell	punct
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 exclaimed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	exclaim speech: express in a quote	past	Bad old man				vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	sell	infinitive		my slave	you		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent slave=Theme to you=Recipient
3	give	would	I		money	to a Jew	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Theme to jew=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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