The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 4, sentence 85

The fisherman stopped here to say to the genius: "You see what passed between the Greek king and the physician has just passed between us two.

Who acts: fisherman, genius · What happens: stop, say, see, pass · To what, where: genius, physician · 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 (fisherman, genius), 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 fisherman	det
2	fisherman	fisherman	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stopped	nsubj
3	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 stopped	advmod
5	to	to	PART	_	6 say	mark
6	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 stopped	xcomp
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 genius	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 genius	det
9	genius	genius	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 say	obl
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 see	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 see	punct
12	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 see	nsubj
13	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 stopped	conj
14	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	15 passed	nsubj
15	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 see	ccomp
16	between	between	ADP	_	19 king	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 king	det
18	Greek	Greek	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 king	amod
19	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 passed	obl
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 passed	cc
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 physician	det
22	physician	physician	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 passed	nsubj:pass
23	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 passed	aux
24	just	just	ADV	_	25 passed	advmod
25	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 passed	conj
26	between	between	ADP	_	27 us	case
27	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 passed	obl
28	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 us	appos
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 stopped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	stop	past	the fisherman			here		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	the fisherman not said here		the genius			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to genius=Recipient
3	see in a quote	present	the genius = genius					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	pass in a quote	past					between the Greek king	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme between king=Location
5	pass in a quote	present · perfect · passive		the physician			between us	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: subject=Theme between we=Destination

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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