The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 43, sentence 72

If they were my own sons," he said to himself, "they could not be better educated!" and aloud he complimented them on their learning and taste for knowledge.

Who acts: apartments, own sons, Sultan · What happens: be, say, not educate, compliment · To what, where: own sons, Sultan, apartments, learning · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 43. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (apartments, own sons, Sultan), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	6 sons	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 sons	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sons	cop
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 sons	nmod:poss
5	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 sons	amod
6	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 said	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 sons	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 sons	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 said	nsubj
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 himself	case
12	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	10 said	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 educated	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 educated	punct
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 educated	nsubj
16	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 educated	aux
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 educated	advmod
18	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 educated	aux:pass
19	better	well	ADV	Degree=Cmp	20 educated	advmod
20	educated	educate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 said	ccomp
21	!	!	PUNCT	_	20 educated	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 educated	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 complimented	cc
24	aloud	aloud	ADV	_	26 complimented	advmod
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 complimented	nsubj
26	complimented	compliment	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 said	conj
27	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 complimented	obj
28	on	on	ADP	_	30 learning	case
29	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 learning	nmod:poss
30	learning	learning	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 complimented	obl
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 taste	cc
32	taste	taste	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 learning	conj
33	for	for	ADP	_	34 knowledge	case
34	knowledge	knowledge	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 taste	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a a condition, not said to happen	past	apartments = apartment	my own sons				tree rules
2	say speech: assert in a quote	past	my own sons		Sultan			vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to himself=Experiencer clause=Topic
3	not educate speech: other	could · passive		apartments = apartment			well property	vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
4	compliment in a quote	past	Sultan	apartments = apartment		apartments's learning and taste for knowledge	aloud property	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

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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