The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 44, sentence 49

"I believed it," answered the Sultan, "because the women attending on her told me so."

Who acts: Sultan, women · What happens: believe, answer, attend, tell · To what, where: cucumber, Sultan · 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 (Sultan, women), 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	_	3 believed	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 believed	nsubj
3	believed	believe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 believed	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 answered	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 answered	punct
7	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 believed	parataxis
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Sultan	det
9	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 answered	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 told	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 told	punct
12	because	because	SCONJ	_	18 told	mark
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 women	det
14	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 told	nsubj
15	attending	attend	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 women	acl
16	on	on	ADP	_	17 her	case
17	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 attending	obl
18	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 answered	conj
19	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 told	iobj
20	so	so	ADV	_	18 told	advmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 believed	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 believed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	believe in a quote	past	the Sultan = sultan	cucumber			tree rules
2	answer speech: assert	past	the Sultan				vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	attend in a quote	gerund	the women not said here			on princess	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on she=Theme
4	tell speech: assert in a quote	past	the women		the Sultan = sultan		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/44/49/