The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 4, sentence 24

She thought that one of her slaves must have been telling tales of her, but they told her it was the parrot, and she resolved to revenge herself on him.

Who acts: wife, one, tales, absence · What happens: think, tell, be, resolve, revenge · To what, where: tales, wife, parrot · 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 (wife, one, tales, absence), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg128:333): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 telling	mark
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 telling	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 slaves	case
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 slaves	nmod:poss
7	slaves	slave	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 one	nmod
8	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 telling	aux
9	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 telling	aux
10	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 telling	aux
11	telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 thought	ccomp
12	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 telling	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 her	case
14	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 tales	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 told	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 told	cc
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 told	nsubj
18	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 thought	conj
19	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 told	iobj
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 parrot	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 parrot	cop
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 parrot	det
23	parrot	parrot	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 told	ccomp
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 resolved	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 resolved	cc
26	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 resolved	nsubj
27	resolved	resolve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 thought	conj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 revenge	mark
29	revenge	revenge	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 resolved	xcomp
30	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	29 revenge	obj
31	on	on	ADP	_	32 him	case
32	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 revenge	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	wife				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	must · perfect · progressive	one of wife's slaves	tales of wife			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tale=Recipient
3	tell speech: assert	past	tales = tale		wife		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
4	is a	past	absence	the parrot			tree rules
5	resolve	past	wife				tree rules
6	revenge	to-infinitive	wife not said here	wife		on man	tree rules
7	tell		wife				nom tale «communication intransitive»: of=agent

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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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