The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 41, sentence 72

After explaining the peculiar qualities of each, the princess continued: "It was a Mussulman devotee who told me all this, and where they might all be found.

Who acts: princess, Bird, Mussulman devotee · What happens: explain, continue, be, tell, find · To what, where: peculiar qualities, Mussulman devotee, this, princess, qualities · 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 (princess, Bird, Mussulman devotee), 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	After	after	SCONJ	_	2 explaining	mark
2	explaining	explain	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 continued	advcl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 qualities	det
4	peculiar	peculiar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 qualities	amod
5	qualities	quality	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 explaining	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 each	case
7	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	5 qualities	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 explaining	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 princess	det
10	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 continued	nsubj
11	continued	continue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 continued	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 devotee	punct
14	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 devotee	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 devotee	cop
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 devotee	det
17	Mussulman	Mussulman	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 devotee	compound
18	devotee	devotee	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 continued	obl
19	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 told	nsubj
20	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 devotee	acl:relcl
21	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 told	iobj
22	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	23 this	det:predet
23	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	20 told	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 found	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 found	cc
26	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	31 found	advmod
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 found	nsubj
28	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 found	aux
29	all	all	ADV	_	31 found	advmod
30	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	31 found	aux:pass
31	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 continued	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 continued	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	explain speech: assert	gerund	the princess not said here	the peculiar qualities of each			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent quality=Topic
2	continue	past	the princess				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is a in a quote	past	Bird	a Mussulman devotee			tree rules
4	tell speech: assert in a quote	past	a Mussulman devotee	this	the princess = princess		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
5	find in a quote	might · passive		qualities = quality		all property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic

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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