The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 30, sentence 41

Still personating the fisherman, the Caliph answered: "Scheih Ibrahim, whatever is in the purse I will share equally with you, but as to the slave I will keep her for myself.

Who acts: Caliph, whatever · What happens: personate, answer, be, share, keep · To what, where: fisherman, Scheih, purse · 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 (Caliph, whatever), 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	Still	still	ADV	_	2 personating	advmod
2	personating	personate	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 answered	advcl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 fisherman	det
4	fisherman	fisherman	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 personating	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 personating	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Caliph	det
7	Caliph	Caliph	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 answered	nsubj
8	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 Scheih	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 Scheih	punct
11	Scheih	Scheih	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 answered	obl
12	Ibrahim	Ibrahim	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Scheih	flat
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 purse	punct
14	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 purse	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 purse	cop
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 purse	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 purse	det
18	purse	purse	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 Scheih	appos
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 share	nsubj
20	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 share	aux
21	share	share	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 purse	acl:relcl
22	equally	equally	ADV	_	21 share	advmod
23	with	with	ADP	_	24 you	case
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 share	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 keep	punct
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	33 keep	cc
27	as	as	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	30 slave	case
28	to	to	ADP	_	27 as	fixed
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 slave	det
30	slave	slave	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 keep	obl
31	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 keep	nsubj
32	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 keep	aux
33	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 answered	conj
34	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 keep	obj
35	for	for	ADP	_	36 myself	case
36	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	33 keep	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	personate	gerund	the Caliph not said here	the fisherman		still		tree rules
2	answer speech: assert	past	the Caliph	Scheih				vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is in a quote	present	whatever		the purse			tree rules
4	share in a quote	future	the Caliph = caliph	the purse not said here			with you; equally property	tree rules
5	keep in a quote	future	the Caliph = caliph	Scheih			as the slave; for the Caliph = caliph	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme

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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