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The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 5, sentence 31

I shall tell the Sultan all that has happened," said he.

Who acts: I, that, vizir · What happens: tell, happen, say · To what, where: 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 (I, that, vizir), 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

nsubjauxdetobjdet:predetnsubjauxccomppunctpunctccompnsubjpunctrootIPRONshallAUXtellVERBtheDETSultanPROPNallDETthatPRONhasAUXhappenedVERB,PUNCT"PUNCTsaidVERBhePRON.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs3 tellnsubj
2shallshallAUXVerbForm=Fin3 tellaux
3telltellVERBVerbForm=Infrootroot
4thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art5 Sultandet
5SultanSultanPROPNNumber=Sing3 tellobj
6allallDETPronType=Tot9 happeneddet:predet
7thatthatPRONPronType=Rel9 happenednsubj
8hashaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin9 happenedaux
9happenedhappenVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part3 tellccomp
10,,PUNCT_3 tellpunct
11""PUNCT_3 tellpunct
12saidsayVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin3 tellccomp
13hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs12 saidnsubj
14..PUNCT_3 tellpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1tell speech: assertshallIthe Sultanvn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Agent sultan=Recipient clause=Topic
2happenpresent · perfectthatvn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3say speech: assert in a quotepastvizirvn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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