The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 36, sentence 48

"Oh certainly," said he, "I am only glad I could be of use to you in the matter.

Who acts: Ali · What happens: say, be · To what, where: you, matter · 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 (Ali), 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	_	6 said	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	6 said	discourse
3	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	2 Oh	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 said	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 glad	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 glad	punct
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 glad	nsubj
11	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 glad	cop
12	only	only	ADV	_	13 glad	advmod
13	glad	glad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 said	advcl
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 use	nsubj
15	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 use	aux
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 use	cop
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 use	case
18	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 glad	ccomp
19	to	to	ADP	_	20 you	case
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 use	nmod
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 matter	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 matter	det
23	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 use	nmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Ali				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is in a quote	present	Ali			glad property	tree rules
3	is in a quote	could	Ali	you	the matter	of use	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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