The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 42, sentence 75

"Madam," cried the dervish, "out of all the number who have asked me the way to the mountain, you are the first who has ever suggested such a means of escaping the danger!

Who acts: Madam, you, a · What happens: cry, ask, be, suggest, mean, escape · To what, where: dervish, number, Madam, danger · 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 (Madam, you, a), 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	_	2 Madam	punct
2	Madam	madam	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cried	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Madam	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Madam	punct
5	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 dervish	det
7	dervish	dervish	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cried	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 number	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 number	punct
10	out	out	ADP	_	14 number	case
11	of	of	ADP	_	14 number	case
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 number	det:predet
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 number	det
14	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cried	obl
15	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 asked	nsubj:pass
16	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 asked	aux
17	asked	ask	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 number	acl:relcl
18	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 asked	iobj
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 way	det
20	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 asked	obl
21	to	to	ADP	_	23 mountain	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 mountain	det
23	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 way	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 first	punct
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	28 first	nsubj
26	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 first	cop
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 first	det
28	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 cried	parataxis
29	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 suggested	nsubj:pass
30	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 suggested	aux
31	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	32 suggested	advmod
32	suggested	suggest	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 first	advcl
33	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	35 means	det:predet
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 means	nsubj
35	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 suggested	ccomp
36	of	of	SCONJ	_	37 escaping	mark
37	escaping	escape	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	35 means	ccomp
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 danger	det
39	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 escaping	obj
40	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	Madam	the dervish		all number			tree rules
2	ask speech: ask in a quote	present · perfect · passive		all number	Madam			the way to the mountain obl	tree rules
3	is in a quote	present	you					first property	tree rules
4	suggest speech: suggest in a quote	present · perfect · passive					ever		tree rules
5	mean in a quote	present	a						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	escape in a quote	gerund		the danger					vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme danger=Initial_Location

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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