The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 37, sentence 18

"Then take careful note of this house," said the Caliph, "and bring me the boy to-morrow, so that the affair may be tried by him in my presence.

Who acts: you, Caliph, boy · What happens: take, say, bring, try, note · To what, where: careful note, boy, grand vizir, affair, presence, house · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Caliph, boy), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 take	punct
2	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 take	advmod
3	take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	careful	careful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 note	amod
5	note	note	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 take	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 house	case
7	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 house	det
8	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 note	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 take	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 take	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 take	parataxis
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Caliph	det
13	Caliph	Caliph	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 said	nsubj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 take	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 take	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 bring	cc
17	bring	bring	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 take	conj
18	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 bring	obj
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 boy	det
20	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 bring	obj
21	to	to	ADP	_	23 morrow	case
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 to	punct
23	morrow	morrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 bring	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 tried	punct
25	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	31 tried	mark
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 so	fixed
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 affair	det
28	affair	affair	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 tried	nsubj:pass
29	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 tried	aux
30	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	31 tried	aux:pass
31	tried	try	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 take	advcl
32	by	by	ADP	_	33 him	case
33	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 tried	obl
34	in	in	ADP	_	36 presence	case
35	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 presence	nmod:poss
36	presence	presence	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 tried	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take in a quote	imperative	you not said here	careful note of this house			then		vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent note=Theme clause=Attribute
2	say speech: assert	past	the Caliph						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	bring in a quote	infinitive	you not said here	the boy	the grand vizir = vizir			to morrow	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination boy=Theme
4	try in a quote	may · passive	boy	the affair		my presence			vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Eventuality
5	note in a quote			this house					nom note «communication 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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