The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 41, sentence 52

"The three things, madam," replied the old woman, "are, first, the Talking Bird, whose voice draws all other singing birds to it, to join in chorus.

Who acts: three things, voice · What happens: be, draw, sing, join · To what, where: other singing birds, Bird · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 41. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (three things, voice), 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	_	9 replied	punct
2	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 things	det
3	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 things	nummod
4	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 replied	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 madam	punct
6	madam	madam	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 things	appos
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 things	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 things	punct
9	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 woman	det
11	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 woman	amod
12	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 replied	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 replied	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 replied	punct
15	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 replied	cop
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 first	punct
17	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	9 replied	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 Bird	punct
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 Bird	det
20	Talking	Talking	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 Bird	compound
21	Bird	Bird	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 replied	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 draws	punct
23	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	24 voice	nmod:poss
24	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 draws	nsubj
25	draws	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 Bird	acl:relcl
26	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	29 birds	det
27	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 birds	amod
28	singing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	29 birds	amod
29	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 draws	obj
30	to	to	ADP	_	31 it	case
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 draws	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 join	punct
33	to	to	PART	_	34 join	mark
34	join	join	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 draws	conj
35	in	in	ADP	_	36 chorus	case
36	chorus	chorus	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 join	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 replied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	be speech: assert	present	the three things			the Talking Bird obl; first, reply property	tree rules
2	draw in a quote	present	voice	all other singing birds	Bird		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bird=Theme to it=Destination
3	sing speech: express in a quote	gerund					vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	join in a quote	to-infinitive	voice not said here			in chorus	vn cooperate-73.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in chorus=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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