The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 5, sentence 25

The fisherman did not say what the genius had told him, but he excused himself from bringing them that day on account of the length of the way, and he promised to bring them next day.

Who acts: fisherman · What happens: not say, tell, excuse, bring, promise, account · To what, where: genius, fisherman, fish, account, length · 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 (fisherman), 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 fisherman	det
2	fisherman	fisherman	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 say	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 say	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 say	advmod
5	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	10 told	obj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 genius	det
8	genius	genius	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 told	nsubj:pass
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 told	aux
10	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 say	ccomp
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 told	iobj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 excused	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 excused	cc
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 excused	nsubj
15	excused	excuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 say	parataxis
16	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	15 excused	obj
17	from	from	SCONJ	_	18 bringing	mark
18	bringing	bring	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 excused	advcl
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 bringing	obj
20	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	21 day	det
21	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 bringing	obl:unmarked
22	on	on	ADP	_	23 account	case
23	account	account	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 bringing	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 length	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 length	det
26	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 account	nmod
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 way	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 way	det
29	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 length	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 promised	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 promised	cc
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 promised	nsubj
33	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 excused	conj
34	to	to	PART	_	35 bring	mark
35	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 promised	xcomp
36	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 bring	obj
37	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 day	amod
38	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 bring	obl:unmarked
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	not say speech: assert	past · do-support	the fisherman					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	tell speech: assert	past · perfect · passive		the genius	fisherman			tree rules
3	excuse	past	fisherman	fisherman				vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme
4	bring	gerund	fisherman not said here	fish		account of the length of the way	day	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme on account=Destination
5	promise speech: promise	past	fisherman					vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	bring not said to happen	to-infinitive	fisherman not said here	fish			day	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent they=Theme
7	account			the length of the way				nom account «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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