The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 36, sentence 101

"Let us play at being the Cadi," said the brightest and quickest of them all; "I will be the Cadi.

Who acts: us, I · What happens: let, play, be, say · To what, where: us, Cadi · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (us, I), 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 Let	punct
2	Let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 said	ccomp
3	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 Let	obj
4	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Let	xcomp
5	at	at	ADP	_	8 Cadi	case
6	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 Cadi	cop
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Cadi	det
8	Cadi	Cadi	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 play	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Let	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Let	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 brightest	det
13	brightest	bright	ADJ	Degree=Sup	11 said	ccomp
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 quickest	cc
15	quickest	quick	ADJ	Degree=Sup	13 brightest	conj
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 them	case
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 quickest	nmod
18	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	17 them	nmod:unmarked
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 Cadi	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	25 Cadi	punct
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 Cadi	nsubj
22	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 Cadi	aux
23	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	25 Cadi	cop
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 Cadi	det
25	Cadi	Cadi	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 said	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	let in a quote	infinitive		us		tree rules
2	play in a quote	infinitive	us not said here			vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is in a quote	gerund			the Cadi	tree rules
4	say speech: assert	past				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	is a in a quote	future	I	the Cadi		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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