The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 29, sentence 99

"Giafar," replied the Caliph, "you have committed three faults--first, in giving the permission; second, in not mentioning it to me; and third, in not investigating the matter more closely.

Who acts: Giafar, you · What happens: reply, have, give, not mention, not investigate · To what, where: Caliph, committed three faults, permission, Giafar, matter · 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 (Giafar, you), 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	_	2 Giafar	punct
2	Giafar	Giafar	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 replied	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Giafar	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Giafar	punct
5	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Caliph	det
7	Caliph	Caliph	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 replied	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 have	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 have	punct
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 have	nsubj
11	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 replied	parataxis
12	committed	committed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 faults	amod
13	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 faults	nummod
14	faults	fault	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 have	obj
15	--	--	PUNCT	_	16 first	punct
16	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	11 have	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 giving	punct
18	in	in	SCONJ	_	19 giving	mark
19	giving	give	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 have	advcl
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 permission	det
21	permission	permission	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 giving	obj
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 second	punct
23	second	second	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 replied	advmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 mentioning	punct
25	in	in	SCONJ	_	27 mentioning	mark
26	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 mentioning	advmod
27	mentioning	mention	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 replied	advcl
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 mentioning	obj
29	to	to	ADP	_	30 me	case
30	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 mentioning	obl
31	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 third	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 third	cc
33	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 replied	parataxis
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 investigating	punct
35	in	in	SCONJ	_	37 investigating	mark
36	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	37 investigating	advmod
37	investigating	investigate	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	33 third	conj
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 matter	det
39	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 investigating	obj
40	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	41 closely	advmod
41	closely	closely	ADV	_	37 investigating	advmod
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 replied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	reply speech: assert	past	Giafar	the Caliph		second property	tree rules
2	have in a quote	present	you	committed three faults		first property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fault=Patient
3	give in a quote	gerund	you not said here	the permission			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent permission=Theme
4	not mention speech: other in a quote	gerund	Giafar not said here	permission	Giafar		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Topic to i=Recipient
5	not investigate in a quote	gerund	Giafar not said here	the matter		closely property	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent matter=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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