The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 36, sentence 79

They heard him to the end, and inquired of the merchant what he had to say.

Who acts: words, Ali, merchant · What happens: hear, inquire, have, say · To what, where: Ali, merchant · 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 (words, 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 heard	nsubj
2	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 heard	obj
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 end	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 end	det
6	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 heard	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 inquired	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 inquired	cc
9	inquired	inquire	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 heard	conj
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 merchant	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 merchant	det
12	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 inquired	obl
13	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	15 had	obj
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 had	nsubj
15	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 merchant	acl:relcl
16	to	to	PART	_	17 say	mark
17	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 had	xcomp
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	hear	past	words = word	Ali	to the end		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
2	inquire speech: other	participle	words = word not said here			of the merchant	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent of merchant=Recipient
3	have	past	Ali	the merchant			tree rules
4	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	the merchant not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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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