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The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 5, sentence 24

He sent at once for the fisherman, and when he came said to him, "Fisherman, bring me four more fish like you have brought already, for an accident has happened to them so that they cannot be served up to the Sultan."

Who acts: vizir, accident · What happens: send, say, bring, happen, not serve up · To what, where: Fisherman, vizir, four more fish, me, 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, accident), 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

nsubjcaseoblcasedetoblpunctccadvmodnsubjaux:passparataxiscaseoblpunctpunctoblpunctconjobjnummodamodobjmarknsubjauxadvcladvmodpunctmarkdetnsubjauxconjcaseoblmarkfixednsubj:passauxadvmodaux:passadvclcompound:prtcasedetoblpunctpunctrootHePRONsentVERBatADPonceADVforADPtheDETfishermanNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJwhenADVhePRONcameVERBsaidVERBtoADPhimPRON,PUNCT"PUNCTFishermanNOUN,PUNCTbringVERBmePRONfourNUMmoreADJfishNOUNlikeSCONJyouPRONhaveAUXbroughtVERBalreadyADV,PUNCTforSCONJanDETaccidentNOUNhasAUXhappenedVERBtoADPthemPRONsoSCONJthatSCONJtheyPRONcanAUXnotPARTbeAUXservedVERBupADPtoADPtheDETSultanPROPN.PUNCT"PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1HehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs2 sentnsubj
2sentsendVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
3atatADP_4 oncecase
4onceonceADVNumForm=Word NumType=Mult2 sentobl
5forforADP_7 fishermancase
6thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art7 fishermandet
7fishermanfishermanNOUNNumber=Sing2 sentobl
8,,PUNCT_13 saidpunct
9andandCCONJ_13 saidcc
10whenwhenADVPronType=Int12 cameadvmod
11hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs12 camensubj
12camecomeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin13 saidaux:pass
13saidsayVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part2 sentparataxis
14totoADP_15 himcase
15himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs13 saidobl
16,,PUNCT_18 Fishermanpunct
17""PUNCT_18 Fishermanpunct
18FishermanfishermanNOUNNumber=Sing13 saidobl
19,,PUNCT_20 bringpunct
20bringbringVERBVerbForm=Inf13 saidconj
21meIPRONCase=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs20 bringobj
22fourfourNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card24 fishnummod
23moremoreADJDegree=Cmp24 fishamod
24fishfishNOUNNumber=Plur20 bringobj
25likelikeSCONJ_28 broughtmark
26youyouPRONCase=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs28 broughtnsubj
27havehaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin28 broughtaux
28broughtbringVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part20 bringadvcl
29alreadyalreadyADV_28 broughtadvmod
30,,PUNCT_35 happenedpunct
31forforSCONJ_35 happenedmark
32anaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art33 accidentdet
33accidentaccidentNOUNNumber=Sing35 happenednsubj
34hashaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin35 happenedaux
35happenedhappenVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part28 broughtconj
36totoADP_37 themcase
37themtheyPRONCase=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs35 happenedobl
38sosoSCONJExtPos=SCONJ44 servedmark
39thatthatSCONJ_38 sofixed
40theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs44 servednsubj:pass
41cancanAUXVerbForm=Fin44 servedaux
42notnotPARTPolarity=Neg44 servedadvmod
43bebeAUXVerbForm=Inf44 servedaux:pass
44servedserveVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass35 happenedadvcl
45upupADP_44 servedcompound:prt
46totoADP_48 Sultancase
47thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art48 Sultandet
48SultanSultanPROPNNumber=Sing44 servedobl
49..PUNCT_2 sentpunct
50""PUNCT_2 sentpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1sendpastvizirfor the fishermanvn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2say speech: assertpast · passiveFishermanvizirvn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: to he=Recipient
3bring in a quoteinfinitivefour more fishmevn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination fish=Theme
4bring in a quotepresent · perfectvizirvn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent
5happen in a quotepresent · perfecta accidentfishvn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6not serve up in a quotecan · passivefishthe Sultanvn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to sultan=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.

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