The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 41, sentence 57

"Madam," replied the pilgrim, "I should ill repay the hospitality you have shown me if I refused to answer your question.

Who acts: Madam, you, your · What happens: reply, repay, show, refuse, not answer, question · To what, where: pilgrim, hospitality, Madam, question · 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 (Madam, you, your), 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 Madam	punct
2	Madam	madam	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 replied	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Madam	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Madam	punct
5	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 pilgrim	det
7	pilgrim	pilgrim	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 replied	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 ill	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 ill	punct
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 ill	nsubj
11	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 ill	aux
12	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 replied	advcl
13	repay	repay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 ill	conj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 hospitality	det
15	hospitality	hospitality	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 repay	obj
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 shown	nsubj
17	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 shown	aux
18	shown	show	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 hospitality	acl:relcl
19	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 shown	obj
20	if	if	SCONJ	_	22 refused	mark
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 refused	nsubj
22	refused	refuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 shown	advcl
23	to	to	PART	_	24 answer	mark
24	answer	answer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 refused	xcomp
25	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 question	nmod:poss
26	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 answer	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 replied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	reply speech: assert	past	Madam	the pilgrim		vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent pilgrim=Topic
2	repay in a quote	infinitive	Madam not said here	the hospitality		vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent hospitality=Recipient
3	show in a quote	present · perfect	you	the hospitality not said here	Madam	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
4	refuse a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	past	Madam			vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	not answer speech: assert in a quote	to-infinitive	Madam not said here	your question		vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent question=Eventuality
6	question in a quote		your			nom question «communication transitive»: poss=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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