The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 4, sentence 16

"This vizir," he replied, "told King Sindbad that one ought not believe everything that a mother-in-law says, and told him this story."

Who acts: vizir, one, mother · What happens: reply, tell, not believe, say · To what, where: vizir, King, everything, story · 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 (vizir, one, mother), 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	_	3 vizir	punct
2	This	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 vizir	det
3	vizir	vizir	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 told	ccomp
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 replied	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 replied	punct
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 replied	nsubj
7	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 vizir	acl:relcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 replied	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 vizir	punct
10	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 told	iobj
12	Sindbad	Sindbad	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 King	flat
13	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 one	det
14	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 believe	nsubj
15	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 believe	aux
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 believe	advmod
17	believe	believe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 told	ccomp
18	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	17 believe	obj
19	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 says	obj
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 mother	det
21	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 says	nsubj
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	25 law	punct
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 law	case
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 in	punct
25	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 mother	nmod
26	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 everything	acl:relcl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 told	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 told	cc
29	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 told	parataxis
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 told	iobj
31	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	32 story	det
32	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 told	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 told	punct
34	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	reply speech: assert	past	vizir	this vizir not said here		vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent vizir=Topic
2	tell speech: assert in a quote	past			King	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent king=Recipient clause=Topic
3	not believe in a quote	ought	that one	everything		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer everything=Stimulus
4	say speech: assert in a quote	present	a mother in law			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent that=Topic
5	tell speech: assert in a quote	past		this story	king	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient story=Topic

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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