The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 36, sentence 109

"Stop a moment!" said the little Cadi, "before we come to oaths, I should like to examine the vase with the olives.

Who acts: little Cadi, we · What happens: stop, say, come, like, examine · To what, where: oaths, vase · 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 (little Cadi, we), 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 Stop	punct
2	Stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	ccomp
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 moment	det
4	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Stop	obj
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Stop	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Stop	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Cadi	det
9	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 Cadi	amod
10	Cadi	Cadi	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 like	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 like	punct
13	before	before	SCONJ	_	15 come	mark
14	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 come	nsubj
15	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 like	advcl
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 oaths	case
17	oaths	oath	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 come	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 come	punct
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 like	nsubj
20	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 like	aux
21	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	ccomp
22	to	to	PART	_	23 examine	mark
23	examine	examine	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 like	xcomp
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 vase	det
25	vase	vase	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 examine	obj
26	with	with	ADP	_	28 olives	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 olives	det
28	olives	olive	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 examine	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop in a quote	infinitive				moment		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	say speech: express	past	the little Cadi					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	come in a quote	present	we		oaths			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to oath=Initial_Location
4	like in a quote	should	the little Cadi = cadi					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5	examine not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	the little Cadi = cadi not said here	the vase			with the olives	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vase=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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