The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 3, sentence 48

So he told his story to the genius, but I cannot tell you what it was, as I do not know.

Who acts: story, I · What happens: tell, not tell, not know · To what, where: story, genius, 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 (story, 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 told	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 told	nsubj
3	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 story	nmod:poss
5	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 told	obj
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 genius	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 genius	det
8	genius	genius	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 told	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 tell	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 tell	cc
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 tell	nsubj
12	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 tell	aux
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 tell	advmod
14	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 told	conj
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 tell	iobj
16	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	14 tell	obj
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 was	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 what	acl:relcl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 know	punct
20	as	as	SCONJ	_	24 know	mark
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 know	nsubj
22	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 know	aux
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 know	advmod
24	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 tell	ccomp
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	story	story's story	the genius	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Topic to genius=Recipient
2	not tell speech: assert	can	I		you	tree rules
3	not know	present · do-support	I			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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