The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 41, sentence 75

"My dear sister," replied Prince Bahman, "that you should care about the matter is quite enough, even if we took no interest in it ourselves.

Who acts: dear sister, that, we · What happens: reply, care, be, take · To what, where: Bahman, interest · 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 (dear sister, that, we), 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	_	7 replied	punct
2	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 sister	nmod:poss
3	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 sister	amod
4	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 replied	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 sister	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 sister	punct
7	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 care	advcl
8	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Bahman	nmod:desc
9	Bahman	Bahman	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 replied	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 replied	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 replied	punct
12	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 care	nsubj
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 care	nsubj
14	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 care	aux
15	care	care	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
16	about	about	ADP	_	18 matter	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 matter	det
18	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 enough	obl
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 enough	cop
20	quite	quite	ADV	_	21 enough	advmod
21	enough	enough	ADV	_	15 care	advmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 took	punct
23	even	even	ADV	_	26 took	advmod
24	if	if	SCONJ	_	26 took	mark
25	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 took	nsubj
26	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 care	parataxis
27	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	28 interest	det
28	interest	interest	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 took	obj
29	in	in	ADP	_	30 it	case
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 took	obl
31	ourselves	ourselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	26 took	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 care	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	reply speech: assert	past	My dear sister	Bahman Prince			vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent bahman=Topic
2	care in a quote	should	that				vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	is in a quote	present				about the matter; enough property	tree rules
4	take a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	past	we	no interest	interest		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument interest=Theme ourselves=Destination

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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