The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 30, sentence 29

"It is an unheard-of thing," said Noureddin, "that a fisherman should be in correspondence with a king."

Who acts: letter, Noureddin, that · What happens: be, say · To what, where: correspondence · 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 (letter, Noureddin, that), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 thing	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 thing	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 thing	cop
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 thing	det
5	unheard	unheard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 thing	amod
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 thing	punct
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 thing	case
8	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	ccomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 thing	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 thing	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	Noureddin	Noureddin	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 said	nsubj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct
15	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 correspondence	nsubj
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 fisherman	det
17	fisherman	fisherman	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 correspondence	nsubj
18	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 correspondence	aux
19	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 correspondence	cop
20	in	in	ADP	_	21 correspondence	case
21	correspondence	correspondence	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	ccomp
22	with	with	ADP	_	24 king	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 king	det
24	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 correspondence	nmod
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 correspondence	punct
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 correspondence	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	letter		of a unheard thing	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	Noureddin			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is in a quote	should	that	correspondence	with a king	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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