The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 36, sentence 78

But at the merchant's last words Ali Cogia resolved to lay the cause of the quarrel before them, and told them the whole story.

Who acts: Ali, merchant · What happens: resolve, lay, tell, word, cause · To what, where: last words, cause, whole story, words, quarrel · 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, merchant), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	10 resolved	cc
2	at	at	ADP	_	7 words	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 merchant	det
4	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 words	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 merchant	case
6	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 words	amod
7	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 resolved	obl
8	Ali	Ali	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 resolved	nsubj
9	Cogia	Cogia	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Ali	flat
10	resolved	resolve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	to	to	PART	_	12 lay	mark
12	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 resolved	xcomp
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 cause	det
14	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 lay	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 quarrel	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 quarrel	det
17	quarrel	quarrel	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 cause	nmod
18	before	before	ADP	_	19 them	case
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 lay	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 told	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 told	cc
22	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 resolved	conj
23	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 told	iobj
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 story	det
25	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 story	amod
26	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 told	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 resolved	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	resolve	past	Ali			the merchant's last words		tree rules
2	lay	to-infinitive	Ali not said here	the cause of the quarrel			before words = word	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent cause=Theme before they=Destination
3	tell speech: assert	past	Ali not said here	the whole story	words = word			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient story=Topic
4	word		the merchant					nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent
5	cause			the quarrel				nom cause «event transitive»: of=patient

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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