The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 44, sentence 54

Bird," he cried, "my heart tells me that what you say is true.

Who acts: truth, heart, you · What happens: cry, tell, say, be · To what, where: Bird, me · 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 (truth, heart, 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	Bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cried	obl:unmarked
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Bird	punct
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 cried	punct
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 cried	nsubj
5	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 tells	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 tells	punct
8	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 heart	nmod:poss
9	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 tells	nsubj
10	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 cried	conj
11	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 tells	iobj
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 true	mark
13	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 true	nsubj
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 say	nsubj
15	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 what	acl:relcl
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 true	cop
17	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 tells	advcl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express in a quote	past	truth	Bird			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	tell speech: assert	present	my heart		me		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
3	say speech: assert	present	you				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	is	present				true property	tree rules

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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