The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 30, sentence 20

Noureddin, in the habit of giving to others whatever they admired, said, "Fisherman, as she pleases you so much, take her; she is yours."

Who acts: habit, others, Noureddin, lady · What happens: give, admire, say, please, take, be · To what, where: others, whatever, Fisherman, you, lady, yours · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (habit, others, Noureddin, lady), 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	Noureddin	Noureddin	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 said	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 habit	punct
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 habit	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 habit	det
5	habit	habit	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Noureddin	appos
6	of	of	SCONJ	_	7 giving	mark
7	giving	give	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 habit	acl
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 others	case
9	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 giving	obl
10	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 admired	obj
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 admired	nsubj
12	admired	admire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 others	acl:relcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Noureddin	punct
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 Fisherman	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 Fisherman	punct
17	Fisherman	fisherman	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 said	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 pleases	punct
19	as	as	SCONJ	_	21 pleases	mark
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 pleases	nsubj
21	pleases	please	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 said	ccomp
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 pleases	obj
23	so	so	ADV	_	24 much	advmod
24	much	much	ADV	_	21 pleases	advmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 take	punct
26	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 pleases	conj
27	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 take	obj
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 yours	punct
29	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 yours	nsubj
30	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 yours	cop
31	yours	your	PRON	Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 pleases	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 pleases	punct
33	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 pleases	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	give	gerund	the habit not said here		others	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to other=Recipient
2	admire	past	others = other	whatever		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer whatever=Stimulus
3	say speech: assert	past	Noureddin	Fisherman		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	please in a quote	present	lady	you		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus you=Experiencer
5	take in a quote	infinitive	lady not said here		lady	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument she=Destination
6	is a in a quote	present	lady	yours		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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