The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 4, sentence 14

I remember well what a vizir said to King Sindbad, his master, to prevent him from putting the prince, his son, to death."

Who acts: I, vizir · What happens: remember, say, prevent, put · To what, where: King, prince · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, vizir), 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 remember	nsubj
2	remember	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 what	advmod
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 said	obj
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 vizir	det
6	vizir	vizir	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 remember	ccomp
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 King	case
9	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 said	obl
10	Sindbad	Sindbad	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 King	flat
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 master	punct
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 master	nmod:poss
13	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 King	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 prevent	punct
15	to	to	PART	_	16 prevent	mark
16	prevent	prevent	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 remember	conj
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 prevent	obj
18	from	from	SCONJ	_	19 putting	mark
19	putting	put	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 prevent	advcl
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 prince	det
21	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 putting	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 son	punct
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 son	nmod:poss
24	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 putting	vocative
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 death	punct
26	to	to	ADP	_	27 death	case
27	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 putting	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 remember	punct
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 remember	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	remember	present	I				vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	a vizir		King and king's master		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Topic to king=Recipient
3	prevent	to-infinitive	I not said here	king			vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer he=Theme
4	put	gerund	I not said here		the prince	to death; king's son vocative	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent prince=Goal

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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