The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 42, sentence 13

"I am grateful to you for your interest in me," said Prince Bahman, "and for the advice you have given, though I cannot follow it.

Who acts: Bahman, you, your · What happens: be, say, give, not follow, interest · To what, where: you, advice · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 42. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bahman, 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	_	4 grateful	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 grateful	nsubj
3	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 grateful	cop
4	grateful	grateful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 said	ccomp
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 you	case
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 grateful	obl
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 interest	case
8	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 interest	nmod:poss
9	interest	interest	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 grateful	obl
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 me	case
11	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 interest	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 grateful	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 grateful	punct
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 Bahman	nmod:desc
16	Bahman	Bahman	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 said	nsubj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 Bahman	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 Bahman	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 given	cc
20	for	for	ADP	_	22 advice	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 advice	det
22	advice	advice	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 given	obl
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 given	nsubj
24	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 given	aux
25	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 said	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 follow	punct
27	though	though	SCONJ	_	31 follow	mark
28	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 follow	nsubj
29	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 follow	aux
30	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	31 follow	advmod
31	follow	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 given	conj
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 follow	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	Bahman Prince = bahman		you	for your interest in me; grateful property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	Bahman Prince				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	give in a quote	present · perfect	you			for the advice	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent for advice=Asset
4	not follow in a quote	can	Bahman Prince = bahman	advice			vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
5	interest in a quote		your			in me	nom interest «cognition transitive»: poss=agent in=obl

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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