The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 5, sentence 41

He was enormously tall, and carried a large green stick with which he touched the fish, saying in a terrible voice, "Fish, fish, are you doing your duty?"

Who acts: slave, you · What happens: be, carry, touch, say, do · To what, where: large green stick, fish, terrible voice, duty · 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 (slave, you), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 tall	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 tall	cop
3	enormously	enormously	ADV	_	4 tall	advmod
4	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 carried	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 carried	cc
7	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 tall	parataxis
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 stick	det
9	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 stick	amod
10	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 stick	amod
11	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 carried	obj
12	with	with	ADP	_	13 which	case
13	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 touched	obl
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 touched	nsubj
15	touched	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 stick	acl:relcl
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 fish	det
17	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 touched	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 saying	punct
19	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 carried	advcl
20	in	in	ADP	_	23 voice	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 voice	det
22	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 voice	amod
23	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 saying	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 Fish	punct
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	26 Fish	punct
26	Fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 voice	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 fish	punct
28	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 Fish	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 doing	punct
30	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 doing	aux
31	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	32 doing	nsubj
32	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 tall	conj
33	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 duty	nmod:poss
34	duty	duty	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 doing	obj
35	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 tall	punct
36	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 tall	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	slave			enormously, tall property	tree rules
2	carry	past		a large green stick			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stick=Theme
3	touch	past	slave	the fish		with a large green stick	vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent fish=Experiencer with which=Instrument
4	say speech: ask	gerund			a terrible voice and Fish and fish		vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent in voice=Manner
5	do in a quote	present · progressive	you	your duty			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent duty=Eventuality

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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