The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 32, sentence 85

The slave said it was the holy woman, curing people by her touch of their ailments, whereupon the princess, who had long desired to see Fatima, sent for her.

Who acts: slave, matter, princess, bade, people · What happens: say, be, cure, desire, see, send · To what, where: holy woman, people, princess, Fatima, ailments · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (slave, matter, princess, bade), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 slave	det
2	slave	slave	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 woman	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 woman	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 woman	det
7	holy	holy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 woman	amod
8	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	ccomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 curing	punct
10	curing	cure	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 said	advcl
11	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 curing	obj
12	by	by	ADP	_	14 touch	case
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 touch	nmod:poss
14	touch	touch	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 curing	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 ailments	case
16	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 ailments	nmod:poss
17	ailments	ailment	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 touch	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 sent	punct
19	whereupon	whereupon	ADV	PronType=Int	31 sent	advmod
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 princess	det
21	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 sent	nsubj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 desired	punct
23	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 desired	nsubj:pass
24	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 desired	aux
25	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	26 desired	advmod
26	desired	desire	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 princess	acl:relcl
27	to	to	PART	_	28 see	mark
28	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 desired	xcomp
29	Fatima	Fatima	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 see	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 sent	punct
31	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 touch	acl:relcl
32	for	for	ADP	_	33 her	case
33	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 sent	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the slave			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	matter	the holy woman		tree rules
3	cure	gerund	the slave not said here	people	by bade's touch of people's ailments	vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer people=Source
4	desire	past · perfect · passive		the princess	long property	tree rules
5	see not said to happen	to-infinitive		Fatima		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fatima=Stimulus
6	send	past	the princess		for bade; whereupon property	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
7	touch		bade	people's ailments		nom touch «event transitive»: poss=agent of=patient
8	ail		people			nom ailment «state transitive»: poss=agent

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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