The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 3, sentence 5

I gave my brother half, saying: "Now, brother, you can forget your losses."

Who acts: I, brother · What happens: give, say, forget · To what, where: brother half, losses · 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 (I, brother), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 gave	nsubj
2	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 half	nmod:poss
4	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 half	compound
5	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	2 gave	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 saying	punct
7	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 gave	advcl
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	16 forget	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 Now	punct
10	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 forget	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 brother	punct
12	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 forget	nsubj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 brother	punct
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 forget	nsubj
15	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 forget	aux
16	forget	forget	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 gave	parataxis
17	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 losses	nmod:poss
18	losses	loss	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 forget	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 forget	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 forget	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	give	past	I	my brother half		tree rules
2	say speech: assert	gerund	I not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	forget in a quote	can	brother	your losses	now	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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