The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 36, sentence 108

The false merchant repeated the reasons that the real merchant had given to the Cadi of Bagdad, and also offered to swear that he had told the truth.

Who acts: false merchant, Cadi · What happens: repeat, give, offer, swear, tell · To what, where: reasons, real merchant, truth · 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 (false merchant, Cadi), 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	3 merchant	det
2	false	false	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 merchant	amod
3	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 repeated	nsubj
4	repeated	repeat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 reasons	det
6	reasons	reason	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 repeated	obj
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 given	obj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 merchant	det
9	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 merchant	amod
10	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 given	nsubj:pass
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 given	aux
12	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 reasons	acl:relcl
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 Cadi	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Cadi	det
15	Cadi	Cadi	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 given	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 Bagdad	case
17	Bagdad	Bagdad	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 Cadi	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 offered	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 offered	cc
20	also	also	ADV	_	21 offered	advmod
21	offered	offer	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 repeated	conj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 swear	mark
23	swear	swear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 offered	advcl
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 told	mark
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 told	nsubj
26	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 told	aux
27	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	23 swear	ccomp
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 truth	det
29	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 told	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 repeated	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	repeat	past	the false merchant	the reasons		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reason=Eventuality
2	give	past · perfect · passive		the real merchant	to the Cadi of Bagdad	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient that=Theme
3	offer	participle	the false merchant not said here			vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent
4	swear	to-infinitive	the false merchant not said here			vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	tell speech: assert	past · perfect	Cadi	the truth		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent truth=Recipient

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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