The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 35, sentence 84

"Sidi-Nouman," she said, "the books I have just consulted tell me that Amina is not home at present, but she should return at any moment.

Who acts: Sidi, books, Amina, daughter · What happens: say, consult, tell, not be, return · To what, where: books, Sidi, present · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sidi, books, Amina, daughter), 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	_	2 Sidi	punct
2	Sidi	Sidi	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 said	nsubj
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 Nouman	punct
4	Nouman	Nouman	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Sidi	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Sidi	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 said	nsubj
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 tell	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 tell	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 books	det
12	books	book	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 tell	nsubj
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 consulted	nsubj
14	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 consulted	aux
15	just	just	ADV	_	16 consulted	advmod
16	consulted	consult	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 books	acl:relcl
17	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	ccomp
18	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 tell	iobj
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 present	mark
20	Amina	Amina	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 present	nsubj
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 present	cop
22	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 present	advmod
23	home	home	ADV	_	25 present	advmod
24	at	at	ADP	_	25 present	case
25	present	present	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 tell	ccomp
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 return	punct
27	but	but	CCONJ	_	30 return	cc
28	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 return	nsubj
29	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 return	aux
30	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 tell	parataxis
31	at	at	ADP	_	33 moment	case
32	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	33 moment	det
33	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 return	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Sidi and Nouman						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	consult in a quote	present · perfect	Sidi and Nouman = sidi	the books not said here					vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Theme
3	tell speech: assert in a quote	infinitive	the books		Sidi and Nouman = sidi				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
4	not is in a quote	present	Amina			present		home property	tree rules
5	return in a quote	should	daughter				moment		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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