The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 3, sentence 124

Listen, and I will tell you."

Who acts: you, I · What happens: listen, tell · To what, where: you · 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 (you, I), 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	Listen	listen	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 tell	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 tell	cc
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 tell	nsubj
5	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 tell	aux
6	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Listen	conj
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 tell	iobj
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Listen	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Listen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	listen	imperative	you not said here						vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
2	tell speech: assert	future	I		you				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient

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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