The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 37, sentence 2

Tell me," he said, "how long can olives be kept so as to be pleasant eating?"

Who acts: you, Cadi, olives · What happens: tell, say, keep, be, eat · To what, where: me, olives · 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, Cadi, olives), 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	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	1 Tell	iobj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Tell	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Tell	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 said	nsubj
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Tell	ccomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 kept	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 kept	punct
9	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	10 long	advmod
10	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	14 kept	advmod
11	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 kept	aux
12	olives	olive	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 kept	nsubj:pass
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 kept	aux:pass
14	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 said	ccomp
15	so	so	ADV	_	19 pleasant	advmod
16	as	as	SCONJ	_	19 pleasant	mark
17	to	to	PART	_	19 pleasant	mark
18	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 pleasant	cop
19	pleasant	pleasant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 kept	xcomp
20	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 pleasant	advcl
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		me		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic
2	say speech: assert in a quote	past	Cadi				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	keep	can · passive		olives		long property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
4	is	to-infinitive	olives not said here			pleasant property	tree rules
5	eat	gerund	olives not said here				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: 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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