The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 36, sentence 71

You fetched it and removed it yourself, and now you tell me it contained a thousand pieces of gold, and that I must restore them to you!

Who acts: You, despair, I · What happens: fetch, remove, tell, contain, restore · To what, where: despair, me, thousand pieces, pieces, you · 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 (You, despair, I), 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 fetched	nsubj
2	fetched	fetch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 fetched	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 removed	cc
5	removed	remove	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 fetched	conj
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 removed	obj
7	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	5 removed	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 tell	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 tell	cc
10	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 tell	advmod
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 tell	nsubj
12	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 fetched	parataxis
13	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 tell	iobj
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 contained	nsubj
15	contained	contain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 tell	ccomp
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 pieces	det
17	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 pieces	nummod
18	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 contained	obj
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 gold	case
20	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 pieces	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 restore	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 restore	cc
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 restore	mark
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 restore	nsubj
25	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 restore	aux
26	restore	restore	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 tell	conj
27	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 restore	obj
28	to	to	ADP	_	29 you	case
29	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 restore	obl
30	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 fetched	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	fetch	past	You	despair			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	remove	past	You not said here	despair			tree rules
3	tell speech: assert	present	you		me	now	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic
4	contain	past	despair	a thousand pieces of gold			vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot piece=Theme
5	restore	must	I	pieces = piece	you		vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Theme to you=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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