The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 3, sentence 87

Tell me your history and how you came to be shut up in that vase."

Who acts: you · What happens: tell, come, shut up · To what, where: history, me, vase · 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), 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	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	1 Tell	iobj
3	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 history	nmod:poss
4	history	history	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Tell	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 came	cc
6	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	8 came	advmod
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 came	nsubj
8	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Tell	conj
9	to	to	PART	_	11 shut	mark
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 shut	aux:pass
11	shut	shut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 came	advcl
12	up	up	ADP	_	11 shut	compound:prt
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 vase	case
14	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 vase	det
15	vase	vase	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 shut	obl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Tell	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here	your history	me		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient history=Topic
2	come	past	you				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	shut up	to-infinitive · passive	you not said here			that vase	vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»

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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