The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 5, sentence 1

The vizir took them himself to the cook, saying, "Here are four fish that have been brought to the Sultan.

Who acts: vizir, four fish · What happens: take, say, be, bring · To what, where: them, cook, four fish, Sultan · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (vizir, four fish), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 vizir	det
2	vizir	vizir	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	nsubj
3	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 took	obj
5	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 took	obl:unmarked
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 cook	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 cook	det
8	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 saying	punct
10	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 took	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 Here	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 Here	punct
13	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 saying	advmod
14	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 Here	cop
15	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 fish	nummod
16	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 Here	nsubj
17	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 brought	nsubj:pass
18	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 brought	aux
19	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	20 brought	aux:pass
20	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 fish	acl:relcl
21	to	to	ADP	_	23 Sultan	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 Sultan	det
23	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 brought	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	take	past	the vizir	them = they		the cook	vizir obl:unmarked	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to cook=Destination
2	say speech: assert	gerund	the vizir not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is in a quote	present	four fish				here property	tree rules
4	bring in a quote	present · perfect · passive		four fish	the Sultan			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to sultan=Destination

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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