The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 5, sentence 101

"Tell me," he cried, "where is this wicked woman, and where is the miserable object of her affection, whom she just manages to keep alive?"

Who acts: you, Sultan, woman · What happens: tell, cry, be, manage, keep · To what, where: Sultan, wicked woman, miserable object · 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 (you, Sultan, woman), 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	_	2 Tell	punct
2	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 Tell	iobj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 cried	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 cried	punct
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 cried	nsubj
7	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Tell	advcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 woman	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 where	punct
10	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	14 woman	advmod
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 woman	cop
12	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 woman	det
13	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 woman	amod
14	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cried	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 object	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 object	cc
17	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	21 object	advmod
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 object	cop
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 object	det
20	miserable	miserable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 object	amod
21	object	object	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Tell	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 affection	case
23	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 affection	nmod:poss
24	affection	affection	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 object	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 manages	punct
26	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 manages	obj
27	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 manages	nsubj
28	just	just	ADV	_	29 manages	advmod
29	manages	manage	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 object	acl:relcl
30	to	to	PART	_	31 keep	mark
31	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 manages	xcomp
32	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 keep	xcomp
33	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 Tell	punct
34	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert in a quote	imperative	you not said here		Sultan		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
2	cry speech: express	past	Sultan				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is a in a quote	present		this wicked woman			tree rules
4	is a in a quote	present		the miserable object		of woman's affection	tree rules
5	manage in a quote	present	woman	the miserable object			tree rules
6	keep in a quote	to-infinitive	woman not said here			alive property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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