The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 37, sentence 29

I think it was you who judged the case of Ali Cogia and the merchant last night?

Who acts: I, affair, you, merchant · What happens: think, be, judge, night · To what, where: you, case · 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 (I, affair, you, 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 think	nsubj
2	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 you	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 you	cop
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 judged	nsubj
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 judged	nsubj
7	judged	judge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 think	ccomp
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 case	det
9	case	case	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 judged	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 Ali	case
11	Ali	Ali	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 case	nmod
12	Cogia	Cogia	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Ali	flat
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 night	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 merchant	det
15	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 night	nsubj
16	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 night	amod
17	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 Ali	conj
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 think	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	think speech: other	present	I		vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	is a	past	affair	you	tree rules
3	judge	past	you	the case of Ali and last night	vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Agent case=Value
4	night		the merchant		tree rules

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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