The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 29, sentence 5

"My lord," she said, "I know that the late vizir, your father, bought me for 10,000 gold pieces, and though I have diminished in value since, I should still fetch a large sum.

Who acts: she, I, late vizir · What happens: say, know, buy, diminish, fetch · To what, where: me, value, large sum · 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 (she, I, late vizir), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 lord	punct
2	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 lord	nmod:poss
3	lord	lord	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	ccomp
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 lord	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 lord	punct
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 said	nsubj
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 know	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 know	punct
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 know	nsubj
11	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 said	ccomp
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 bought	mark
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 vizir	det
14	late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 vizir	amod
15	vizir	vizir	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 bought	nsubj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 father	punct
17	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 father	nmod:poss
18	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 vizir	appos
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 father	punct
20	bought	buy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 know	ccomp
21	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 bought	iobj
22	for	for	ADP	_	25 pieces	case
23	10,000	10000	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	25 pieces	nummod
24	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 pieces	compound
25	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 bought	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 diminished	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 diminished	cc
28	though	though	SCONJ	_	31 diminished	mark
29	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 diminished	nsubj
30	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 diminished	aux
31	diminished	diminish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 said	conj
32	in	in	ADP	_	33 value	case
33	value	value	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 diminished	obl
34	since	since	ADV	_	39 fetch	advmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 since	punct
36	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	39 fetch	nsubj
37	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 fetch	aux
38	still	still	ADV	_	39 fetch	advmod
39	fetch	fetch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 diminished	advcl
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 sum	det
41	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 sum	amod
42	sum	sum	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 fetch	obj
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	she						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	know in a quote	present	I						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	buy in a quote	past	the late vizir		me			for 10,000 gold pieces	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent i=Theme for piece=Beneficiary
4	diminish in a quote	present · perfect	I			value			vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
5	fetch in a quote	should	I	a large sum			still	since property	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sum=Theme

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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