The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 5, sentence 84

"Willingly I will tell you my sad history," said the young man.

Who acts: young man · What happens: tell, say · To what, where: sad history, you · 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 (young man), 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	_	5 tell	punct
2	Willingly	willingly	ADV	_	5 tell	advmod
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 tell	nsubj
4	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 tell	aux
5	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 said	ccomp
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 tell	iobj
7	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 history	nmod:poss
8	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 history	amod
9	history	history	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tell	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 tell	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 tell	punct
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 man	det
14	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 man	amod
15	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 said	nsubj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert in a quote	future	the young man = man	my sad history	you			willingly property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient history=Topic
2	say speech: assert	past	the young man						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

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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