The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 4, sentence 20

This parrot not only spoke well, but it had the gift of telling all that had been done before it.

Who acts: parrot, gift · What happens: not speak, have, tell, do · To what, where: gift, that · 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 (parrot, gift), 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	This	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 parrot	det
2	parrot	parrot	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 spoke	nsubj
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 spoke	advmod
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 spoke	advmod
5	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 spoke	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 had	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 had	cc
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 had	nsubj
10	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 spoke	conj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 gift	det
12	gift	gift	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 had	obj
13	of	of	SCONJ	_	14 telling	mark
14	telling	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 gift	acl
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	19 done	det:predet
16	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 done	obj
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 done	aux
18	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	19 done	aux:pass
19	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 telling	ccomp
20	before	before	ADP	_	21 it	case
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 done	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 spoke	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	not speak speech: other	past	this parrot			well property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	have	past	Parrot	the gift			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gift=Patient
3	tell speech: assert	gerund	the gift not said here				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	do	past · perfect · passive		that	before Parrot		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: that=Eventuality

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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