The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 40, sentence 57

"Tell me, do you remember what you wished for last night, when you were making merry?

Who acts: you · What happens: tell, remember, wish, make · To what, where: words · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 40. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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	_	2 Tell	punct
2	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 Tell	iobj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 remember	punct
5	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 remember	aux
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 remember	nsubj
7	remember	remember	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Tell	conj
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 remember	obj
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 wished	nsubj
10	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 what	acl:relcl
11	for	for	ADP	_	13 night	case
12	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 night	amod
13	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 wished	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 making	punct
15	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	18 making	advmod
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 making	nsubj
17	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 making	aux
18	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 remember	advcl
19	merry	merry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 making	xcomp
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 Tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert in a quote	imperative	you not said here	words = word			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
2	remember in a quote	present · do-support	you				vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent what=Theme
3	wish in a quote	past	you		night		vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
4	make in a quote	past · progressive	you			merry property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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