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The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 3, sentence 116

Then a voice came from the vase which said to the fisherman, "Well, unbelieving fisherman, here I am in the vase; do you believe me now?"

Who acts: voice, vase, fisherman · What happens: come, say, unbeliev, be, believe · To what, where: vase, fisherman · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (voice, vase, fisherman), 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

advmoddetnsubjcasedetoblnsubjacl:relclcasedetoblpunctpunctdiscoursepunctadvclobjpunctadvmodnsubjcopcasedetparataxispunctauxnsubjparataxisiobjadvmodpunctpunctrootThenADVaDETvoiceNOUNcameVERBfromADPtheDETvaseNOUNwhichPRONsaidVERBtoADPtheDETfishermanNOUN,PUNCT"PUNCTWellINTJ,PUNCTunbelievingVERBfishermanNOUN,PUNCThereADVIPRONamAUXinADPtheDETvaseNOUN;PUNCTdoAUXyouPRONbelieveVERBmePRONnowADV?PUNCT"PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThenthenADVPronType=Dem4 cameadvmod
2aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art3 voicedet
3voicevoiceNOUNNumber=Sing4 camensubj
4camecomeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
5fromfromADP_7 vasecase
6thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art7 vasedet
7vasevaseNOUNNumber=Sing4 cameobl
8whichwhichPRONPronType=Rel9 saidnsubj
9saidsayVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin7 vaseacl:relcl
10totoADP_12 fishermancase
11thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art12 fishermandet
12fishermanfishermanNOUNNumber=Sing9 saidobl
13,,PUNCT_17 unbelievingpunct
14""PUNCT_17 unbelievingpunct
15WellwellINTJ_17 unbelievingdiscourse
16,,PUNCT_17 unbelievingpunct
17unbelievingunbelievVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part4 cameadvcl
18fishermanfishermanNOUNNumber=Sing17 unbelievingobj
19,,PUNCT_20 herepunct
20herehereADVPronType=Dem17 unbelievingadvmod
21IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs25 vasensubj
22ambeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin25 vasecop
23ininADP_25 vasecase
24thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art25 vasedet
25vasevaseNOUNNumber=Sing20 hereparataxis
26;;PUNCT_29 believepunct
27dodoAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin29 believeaux
28youyouPRONCase=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs29 believensubj
29believebelieveVERBVerbForm=Inf4 cameparataxis
30meIPRONCase=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs29 believeiobj
31nownowADVPronType=Dem29 believeadvmod
32??PUNCT_29 believepunct
33""PUNCT_29 believepunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1comepasta voicethe vasethentree rules
2say speech: askpastthe vasethe fishermanvn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to fisherman=Recipient
3unbeliev in a quotegerunda voice not said herefishermanheretree rules
4is in a quotepresentthe vase = vasethe vasetree rules
5believe in a quotepresent · do-supportthe fisherman = fishermanthe vase = vasenowvn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus

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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