The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 36, sentence 40

"My wife," he said, as he entered the room, "you were quite right; the olives are rotten, and I have recorked the vase so well that Ali Cogia will never know it has been touched."

Who acts: few, you, olives, Ali Cogia · What happens: say, enter, be, recork, not know, touch · To what, where: room, 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 (few, you, olives, Ali Cogia), 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	_	3 wife	punct
2	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 wife	nmod:poss
3	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	ccomp
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 wife	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 wife	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	_	11 entered	punct
9	as	as	SCONJ	_	11 entered	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 entered	nsubj
11	entered	enter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 said	ccomp
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 room	det
13	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 entered	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 right	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 right	punct
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 right	nsubj
17	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 right	cop
18	quite	quite	ADV	_	19 right	advmod
19	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 entered	conj
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 rotten	punct
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 olives	det
22	olives	olive	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 rotten	nsubj
23	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 rotten	cop
24	rotten	rotten	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 said	ccomp
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 recorked	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 recorked	cc
27	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 recorked	nsubj
28	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 recorked	aux
29	recorked	recork	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 said	conj
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 vase	det
31	vase	vase	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 recorked	obj
32	so	so	ADV	_	33 well	advmod
33	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	29 recorked	advmod
34	that	that	SCONJ	_	39 know	mark
35	Ali	Ali	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 Cogia	compound
36	Cogia	Cogia	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 know	nsubj
37	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 know	aux
38	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	39 know	advmod
39	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 recorked	advcl
40	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 touched	nsubj:pass
41	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	43 touched	aux
42	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	43 touched	aux:pass
43	touched	touch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	39 know	ccomp
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct
45	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	few			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	enter	past	few	the room		vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme room=Destination
3	is in a quote	past	you		right property	tree rules
4	is in a quote	present	the olives		rotten property	tree rules
5	recork in a quote	present · perfect	few	the vase	well property	tree rules
6	not know in a quote	future	Ali Cogia			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
7	touch in a quote	present · perfect · passive		vase		vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-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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