The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 40, sentence 76

"Oh, I say nothing of myself," replied the elder, "and if the Sultan had chosen you it would have been all very well; but it really grieves me that he should have selected a wretched little creature like that.

Who acts: elder, Sultan · What happens: say, reply, choose, be, grieve, select · To what, where: nothing, you, elder, wretched little creature · 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 (elder, Sultan), 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	_	5 say	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	5 say	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 say	nsubj
5	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 say	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 myself	case
8	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	6 nothing	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 replied	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 replied	punct
11	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 say	parataxis
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 elder	det
13	elder	elder	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 replied	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 replied	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 replied	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 chosen	cc
17	if	if	SCONJ	_	21 chosen	mark
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Sultan	det
19	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 chosen	nsubj
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 chosen	aux
21	chosen	choose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 replied	conj
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 chosen	obj
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 well	nsubj
24	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 well	aux
25	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 well	aux
26	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	29 well	cop
27	all	all	ADV	_	29 well	advmod
28	very	very	ADV	_	29 well	advmod
29	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	21 chosen	advmod
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 grieves	punct
31	but	but	CCONJ	_	34 grieves	cc
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 grieves	nsubj
33	really	really	ADV	_	34 grieves	advmod
34	grieves	grieve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 say	parataxis
35	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 grieves	obj
36	that	that	SCONJ	_	40 selected	mark
37	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 selected	nsubj
38	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	40 selected	aux
39	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	40 selected	aux
40	selected	select	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	34 grieves	advcl
41	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	44 creature	det
42	wretched	wretched	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 creature	amod
43	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 creature	amod
44	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 selected	obj
45	like	like	ADP	_	46 that	case
46	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	44 creature	nmod
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	present	the elder = elder	nothing		tree rules
2	reply speech: assert	past	the elder			vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	choose a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	past · perfect	the Sultan	you		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
4	is in a quote	would · perfect	elder		all, well property	tree rules
5	grieve in a quote	present	elder	the elder = elder		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus i=Experiencer
6	select in a quote	should · perfect	Sultan	a wretched little creature	like that	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent creature=Theme

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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