The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 36, sentence 87

Ali Cogia replied that he had not taken this precaution, as he had considered the man his friend, and up to that time had always found him honest.

Who acts: Ali · What happens: reply, not take, consider, find · To what, where: precaution, man, 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	Ali	Ali	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 replied	nsubj
2	Cogia	Cogia	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Ali	flat
3	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 taken	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 taken	nsubj
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 taken	aux
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 taken	advmod
8	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 replied	ccomp
9	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 precaution	det
10	precaution	precaution	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 taken	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 considered	punct
12	as	as	SCONJ	_	15 considered	mark
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 considered	nsubj
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 considered	aux
15	considered	consider	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 taken	conj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 man	det
17	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 considered	xcomp
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 friend	nmod:poss
19	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 man	appos
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 found	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 found	cc
22	up	up	ADV	_	28 found	advmod
23	to	to	ADP	_	25 time	case
24	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	25 time	det
25	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 found	obl
26	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 found	aux
27	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	28 found	advmod
28	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 replied	conj
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 found	obj
30	honest	honest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 found	xcomp
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 replied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	reply speech: assert	past	Ali				vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not take	past · perfect	Ali	this precaution			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent precaution=Theme
3	consider	past · perfect	Ali	the man			vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent
4	find	past · perfect	Ali not said here	Ali	time	always, honest property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic

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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