The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 42, sentence 53

"That, holy dervish," replied Prince Perviz, "was my elder brother, who is now dead, though how he died I cannot say."

Who acts: That, elder brother, dervish, I · What happens: reply, be, die, not say · To what, where: Perviz, elder brother · 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 (That, elder brother, dervish, I), 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	_	8 replied	punct
2	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 replied	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 dervish	punct
4	holy	holy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 dervish	amod
5	dervish	dervish	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 replied	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 dervish	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 dervish	punct
8	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 brother	csubj
9	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Perviz	nmod:desc
10	Perviz	Perviz	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 replied	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 replied	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 replied	punct
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 brother	cop
14	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 brother	nmod:poss
15	elder	elder	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 brother	amod
16	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 dead	punct
18	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 dead	nsubj
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 dead	cop
20	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	21 dead	advmod
21	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 brother	parataxis
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 died	punct
23	though	though	SCONJ	_	26 died	mark
24	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	26 died	advmod
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 died	nsubj
26	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 dead	conj
27	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 say	nsubj
28	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 say	aux
29	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	30 say	advmod
30	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 died	ccomp
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 brother	punct
32	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 brother	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	reply speech: assert	past	That	Perviz Prince			vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent perviz=Topic
2	is a in a quote	past		my elder brother			tree rules
3	is in a quote	present	my elder brother		now	dead property	tree rules
4	die in a quote	past	dervish				vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5	not say speech: assert in a quote	can	I				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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