The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 34, sentence 54

Sidi-Nouman," he said, "do not think of me as the Caliph, but merely as a friend who would like to hear your story.

Who acts: Sidi, friend · What happens: say, not think, like, hear · To what, where: story · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sidi, friend), 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	Sidi	Sidi	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 Nouman	punct
3	Nouman	Nouman	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Sidi	flat
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Sidi	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Sidi	punct
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 said	nsubj
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 think	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 think	punct
10	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	12 think	aux
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 think	advmod
12	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	ccomp
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 me	case
14	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 think	obl
15	as	as	ADP	_	17 Caliph	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Caliph	det
17	Caliph	Caliph	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 think	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 friend	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 friend	cc
20	merely	merely	ADV	_	23 friend	advmod
21	as	as	ADP	_	23 friend	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 friend	det
23	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 think	obl
24	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 like	nsubj
25	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 like	aux
26	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 friend	acl:relcl
27	to	to	PART	_	28 hear	mark
28	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 like	xcomp
29	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 story	nmod:poss
30	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 hear	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	past	Sidi			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not think speech: other	infinitive · do-support			of me; as the Caliph; as a friend	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	like	would	a friend			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	hear not said to happen	to-infinitive	a friend not said here	your story		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer story=Stimulus

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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