The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 36, sentence 64

I know nothing about that; you only told me there were olives.

Who acts: I, you, olives · What happens: know, tell, be · To what, where: nothing, me · 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 (I, you, olives), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 know	nsubj
2	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 know	obj
4	about	about	ADP	_	5 that	case
5	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 nothing	nmod
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 told	punct
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 told	nsubj
8	only	only	ADV	_	9 told	advmod
9	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 know	parataxis
10	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 told	iobj
11	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	12 were	expl
12	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 told	ccomp
13	olives	olive	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 were	nsubj
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 know	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	know	present	I	nothing			about that	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus
2	tell speech: assert	past	you		me			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic
3	be	past	olives			there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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