The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 37, sentence 51

"Sire," returned the Indian, "it is not of his outward form that I would speak, but of the use that I can make of him.

Who acts: Sire, workman, outward form, use · What happens: return, not be, speak, make · To what, where: Indian · 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 (Sire, workman, outward form, use), 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	_	2 Sire	punct
2	Sire	sire	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 returned	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Sire	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 returned	punct
5	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Indian	det
7	Indian	Indian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 returned	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 form	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 form	punct
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 form	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 form	cop
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 form	advmod
13	of	of	ADP	_	16 form	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 form	nmod:poss
15	outward	outward	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 form	amod
16	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 returned	obl
17	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 speak	nsubj
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 speak	nsubj
19	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 speak	aux
20	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 form	acl:relcl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 use	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 use	cc
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 use	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 use	det
25	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 returned	obl
26	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 make	nsubj
27	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 make	nsubj
28	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 make	aux
29	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 use	acl:relcl
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 him	case
31	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 make	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 returned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	return	past	Sire	the Indian	of the use	vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent indian=Theme of use=Initial_Location
2	not is in a quote	present	workman		of Sire's outward form	tree rules
3	speak speech: other in a quote	would	Sire's outward form			vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	make in a quote	can	the use		of Sire	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset

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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