The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 29, sentence 95

"Negligent vizir, look at the pavilion, and tell me why it is lit up when I am not there."

Who acts: Negligent vizir, vizir · What happens: look, tell, lit up, not be · To what, where: vizir, pavilion · 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 (Negligent vizir, 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	_	5 look	punct
2	Negligent	negligent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 vizir	amod
3	vizir	vizir	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 look	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 vizir	punct
5	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 pavilion	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 pavilion	det
8	pavilion	pavilion	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 look	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 tell	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 tell	cc
11	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 look	parataxis
12	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 tell	iobj
13	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	16 lit	advmod
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 lit	nsubj:pass
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 lit	aux:pass
16	lit	lit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 tell	advcl
17	up	up	ADP	_	16 lit	compound:prt
18	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	22 there	advmod
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 there	nsubj
20	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 there	cop
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 there	advmod
22	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 lit	advmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 look	punct
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 look	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	look in a quote	infinitive	Negligent vizir			at the pavilion	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at pavilion=Theme
2	tell speech: assert in a quote	infinitive			vizir		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
3	lit up in a quote	present · passive		pavilion			tree rules
4	not is in a quote	present	vizir			there property	tree rules

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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