The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 37, sentence 6

The olive merchants pretended to examine the olives and taste them; then reported to the Cadi that they were fresh and good.

Who acts: olive merchants, merchants · What happens: pretend, examine, taste, report, be · To what, where: olives

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 (olive merchants, merchants), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 merchants	det
2	olive	olive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 merchants	amod
3	merchants	merchant	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 pretended	nsubj
4	pretended	pretend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 examine	mark
6	examine	examine	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 pretended	xcomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 olives	det
8	olives	olive	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 examine	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 taste	cc
10	taste	taste	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 examine	conj
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 taste	obj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 reported	punct
13	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 reported	advmod
14	reported	report	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 pretended	conj
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 Cadi	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Cadi	det
17	Cadi	Cadi	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 reported	obl
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 fresh	mark
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 fresh	nsubj
20	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 fresh	cop
21	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 reported	ccomp
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 good	cc
23	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 fresh	conj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 pretended	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	pretend	past	the olive merchants				tree rules
2	examine	to-infinitive	the olive merchants not said here	the olives			vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent olive=Theme
3	taste	infinitive	the olive merchants not said here	olives = olive			vn seem-109 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Theme they=Attribute
4	report	past	the olive merchants not said here		then	to the Cadi	vn subordinate-95.2.1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to cadi=Co-Agent
5	is	past	merchants = merchant			fresh property	tree rules
6	be		merchants = merchant not said here				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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