The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 44, sentence 33

"It is as you say, sire," answered the princess, "and if you examine the basin, you will see that it is all in one piece, and therefore the water could not have been brought through it.

Who acts: Tree, princess, you · What happens: be, answer, examine, see, not bring · To what, where: basin, one piece, water, Tree · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 44. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tree, princess, you), 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	_	6 say	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 say	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 say	cop
4	as	as	SCONJ	_	6 say	mark
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 say	nsubj
6	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 sire	punct
8	sire	sire	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 answered	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 sire	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 sire	punct
11	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 say	parataxis
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 princess	det
13	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 answered	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 princess	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 princess	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 see	cc
17	if	if	SCONJ	_	19 examine	mark
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 examine	nsubj
19	examine	examine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 see	advcl
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 basin	det
21	basin	basin	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 examine	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 examine	punct
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 see	nsubj
24	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 see	aux
25	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 answered	conj
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	32 piece	mark
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 piece	nsubj
28	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 piece	cop
29	all	all	ADV	_	32 piece	advmod
30	in	in	ADP	_	32 piece	case
31	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	32 piece	nummod
32	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 see	ccomp
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 brought	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 brought	cc
35	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	42 brought	advmod
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 water	det
37	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 brought	nsubj:pass
38	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	42 brought	aux
39	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	42 brought	advmod
40	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	42 brought	aux
41	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	42 brought	aux:pass
42	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 say	conj
43	through	through	ADP	_	44 it	case
44	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 brought	obl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be speech: assert in a quote	present	Tree			say property	tree rules
2	answer speech: assert	past	the princess				vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	examine a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	you	the basin			vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent basin=Theme
4	see in a quote	future	you				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	is in a quote	present	Tree		one piece	all property	tree rules
6	not bring in a quote	could · perfect · passive		the water	Tree	therefore property	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: subject=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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