The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 37, sentence 5

"If that is so," answered the little Cadi, "examine this vase, and tell me how long the olives have been in it."

Who acts: that, little Cadi, olives · What happens: be, answer, examine, tell, have · To what, where: vase, little Cadi · 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 (that, little 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 answered	punct
2	If	if	SCONJ	_	5 so	mark
3	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 so	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 so	cop
5	so	so	ADV	_	8 answered	advcl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 so	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 answered	punct
8	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Cadi	det
10	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 Cadi	amod
11	Cadi	Cadi	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 answered	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 examine	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 examine	punct
14	examine	examine	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 answered	conj
15	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 vase	det
16	vase	vase	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 examine	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 tell	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 tell	cc
19	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 examine	conj
20	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 tell	iobj
21	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	22 long	advmod
22	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	19 tell	advmod
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 olives	det
24	olives	olive	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 have	nsubj
25	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 long	parataxis
26	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	28 it	cop
27	in	in	ADP	_	28 it	case
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 have	xcomp
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 answered	punct
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	that				so property	tree rules
2	answer speech: assert	past	the little Cadi					vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	examine in a quote	infinitive	the little Cadi not said here	this vase				vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vase=Theme
4	tell speech: assert in a quote	infinitive	the little Cadi not said here		the little Cadi = cadi		long property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
5	have in a quote	present	the olives					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	is in a quote	participle	the olives not said here			vase		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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