The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 4, sentence 28

The bird replied, "My good master, the lightning, thunder and rain disturbed me so much all night long, that I cannot tell you what I have suffered."

Who acts: bird, I · What happens: reply, disturb, not tell, suffer · To what, where: bird, me, you · 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 (bird, I), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 bird	det
2	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 disturbed	nsubj
3	replied	reply	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 bird	acl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 bird	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 master	punct
6	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 master	nmod:poss
7	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 master	amod
8	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 disturbed	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 lightning	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 lightning	det
11	lightning	lightning	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 master	appos
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 thunder	punct
13	thunder	thunder	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 lightning	conj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 rain	cc
15	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 lightning	conj
16	disturbed	disturb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 disturbed	obj
18	so	so	ADV	_	19 much	advmod
19	much	much	ADV	_	21 night	advmod
20	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	21 night	det
21	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 disturbed	obl:unmarked
22	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	21 night	advmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 tell	punct
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 tell	mark
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 tell	nsubj
26	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 tell	aux
27	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	28 tell	advmod
28	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 disturbed	parataxis
29	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	28 tell	iobj
30	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	33 suffered	obj
31	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 suffered	nsubj
32	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 suffered	aux
33	suffered	suffer	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	28 tell	ccomp
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	28 tell	punct
35	"	"	PUNCT	_	28 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	reply speech: assert	participle		the bird not said here			vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	disturb in a quote	past	the bird	me		night	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus i=Experiencer
3	not tell speech: assert in a quote	can	I		you		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic
4	suffer in a quote	present · perfect	I				vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus

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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