The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 33, sentence 13

When they were out of earshot, he said to the vizir, "There must be something very odd to make that man act so--I should like to find out what is the reason.

Who acts: alms, oath, man · What happens: be, say, make, act, like, find out · To what, where: earshot, vizir, something, man, reason · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (alms, oath, man), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 were	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 were	nsubj
3	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 said	advcl
4	out	out	ADP	_	6 earshot	case
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 earshot	case
6	earshot	earshot	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 were	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 were	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 said	nsubj
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 vizir	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 vizir	det
12	vizir	vizir	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 something	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 be	punct
15	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	17 be	expl
16	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 be	aux
17	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 something	cop
18	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	12 vizir	appos
19	very	very	ADV	_	20 odd	advmod
20	odd	odd	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 something	amod
21	to	to	PART	_	22 make	mark
22	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 something	acl
23	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	24 man	det
24	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 make	obj
25	act	act	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 make	xcomp
26	so	so	ADV	_	25 act	advmod
27	--	--	PUNCT	_	30 like	punct
28	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 like	nsubj
29	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 like	aux
30	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	ccomp
31	to	to	PART	_	32 find	mark
32	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 like	xcomp
33	out	out	ADP	_	32 find	compound:prt
34	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	37 reason	nsubj
35	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 reason	cop
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 reason	det
37	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 find	acl:relcl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	be	past	alms = alm			earshot	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out earshot=Location
2	say speech: assert	past	oath		the vizir		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to vizir=Recipient clause=Topic
3	is a in a quote	infinitive		something			tree rules
4	make in a quote	to-infinitive	oath not said here	that man			tree rules
5	act in a quote	infinitive	that man not said here				vn act-114-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	like in a quote	should	oath				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
7	find out not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	oath not said here				vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent
8	is a in a quote	present		the reason			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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