The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 37, sentence 71

"Sire," he said, "it is not possible that you can doubt for an instant what reply you should give to such an insolent bargain.

Who acts: Sire, shout, you · What happens: say, not be, doubt, give · To what, where: insolent bargain · 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, shout, you), 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	6 said	ccomp
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Sire	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Sire	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	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 possible	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 possible	punct
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 possible	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 possible	cop
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 possible	advmod
12	possible	possible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 said	ccomp
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 doubt	mark
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 doubt	nsubj
15	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 doubt	aux
16	doubt	doubt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 possible	parataxis
17	for	for	ADP	_	19 instant	case
18	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 instant	det
19	instant	instant	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 doubt	obl
20	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	24 give	obj
21	reply	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 give	aux
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 give	nsubj
23	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 give	aux
24	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 doubt	parataxis
25	to	to	ADP	_	29 bargain	case
26	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	29 bargain	det:predet
27	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 bargain	det
28	insolent	insolent	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 bargain	compound
29	bargain	bargain	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 give	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Sire			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	not is in a quote	present	shout		possible property	tree rules
3	doubt in a quote	can	you		for a instant	vn judgment-33.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent for instant=Attribute
4	give in a quote	should · present	you	such insolent bargain		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Theme to bargain=Recipient

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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