The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 29, sentence 78

On his return, Noureddin said: "We have still need of cups to drink from, and of fruit, if you can procure us some."

Who acts: Noureddin, We, you, Scheih · What happens: say, have, need, drink, procure, return · To what, where: return, us · 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 (Noureddin, We, you, Scheih), 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	On	on	ADP	_	3 return	case
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 return	nmod:poss
3	return	return	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 return	punct
5	Noureddin	Noureddin	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 said	nsubj
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 have	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 have	punct
9	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 have	nsubj
10	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 said	ccomp
11	still	still	ADV	_	12 need	advmod
12	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 have	ccomp
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 cups	case
14	cups	cup	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 need	obl
15	to	to	PART	_	16 drink	mark
16	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 cups	acl
17	from	from	ADP	_	16 drink	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 fruit	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 fruit	cc
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 fruit	case
21	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	ccomp
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 procure	punct
23	if	if	SCONJ	_	26 procure	mark
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 procure	nsubj
25	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 procure	aux
26	procure	procure	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 said	ccomp
27	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 procure	obj
28	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	27 us	nmod:unmarked
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	26 procure	punct
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	26 procure	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Noureddin		Scheih's return			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	have in a quote	present	We					tree rules
3	need in a quote	present	We not said here			still	of cups	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
4	drink in a quote	to-infinitive	We not said here					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	procure a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	can	you	us				vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme
6	return		Scheih					nom return «communication intransitive»: 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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