The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 36, sentence 6

After corking the vase tightly down, he carried it to one of his friends, a merchant like himself, and said to him:

Who acts: Ali · What happens: cork, carry, say · To what, where: vase, one, Ali · 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	After	after	SCONJ	_	2 corking	mark
2	corking	cork	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 carried	advcl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 vase	det
4	vase	vase	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 corking	obj
5	tightly	tightly	ADV	_	6 down	advmod
6	down	down	ADV	_	2 corking	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 corking	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 carried	nsubj
9	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 carried	obj
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 one	case
12	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 carried	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 friends	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 friends	nmod:poss
15	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 one	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 merchant	punct
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 merchant	det
18	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 friends	conj
19	like	like	ADP	_	20 himself	case
20	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	18 merchant	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 said	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 said	cc
23	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 carried	conj
24	to	to	ADP	_	25 him	case
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 said	obl
26	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 carried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	cork	gerund	Ali not said here	the vase		down property	vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent vase=Destination
2	carry	past	Ali	vase	one of Ali's friends and a merchant like Ali		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to one=Destination
3	say speech: assert	past	Ali not said here		Ali		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=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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