The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 42, sentence 48

Before setting out, however, he gave her a chaplet of a hundred pearls, and said, "When I am absent, tell this over daily for me.

Who acts: brother · What happens: set out, give, say, be, tell · To what, where: chaplet, woman, this · 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 (brother), 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	Before	before	SCONJ	_	2 setting	mark
2	setting	set	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 gave	advcl
3	out	out	ADP	_	2 setting	compound:prt
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 however	punct
5	however	however	ADV	_	2 setting	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 setting	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 gave	nsubj
8	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 gave	iobj
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 chaplet	det
11	chaplet	chaplet	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 gave	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	15 pearls	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 hundred	det
14	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 pearls	nummod
15	pearls	pearl	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 chaplet	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 said	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 said	cc
18	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 gave	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 absent	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	24 absent	punct
21	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	24 absent	advmod
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 absent	nsubj
23	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 absent	cop
24	absent	absent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 said	ccomp
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 tell	punct
26	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 absent	parataxis
27	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	26 tell	obj
28	over	over	ADV	_	29 daily	advmod
29	daily	daily	ADV	_	26 tell	advmod
30	for	for	ADP	_	31 me	case
31	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 tell	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	set out	gerund	brother not said here			however property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	give	past	brother	a chaplet of hundred pearls	woman		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient chaplet=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	brother not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	is in a quote	present	brother			absent property	tree rules
5	tell speech: assert in a quote	infinitive		this		for brother; daily property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent this=Recipient

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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