The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 6, sentence 75

Sadie answered the merchant that she must first consult her sisters; and after having talked over the matter with them, she returned to tell him that he and his two friends would be welcome to join their company.

Who acts: Sadie, vizir · What happens: answer, consult, talk, return, tell, be · To what, where: merchant, sisters, matter, vizir, company · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sadie, 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sadie	Sadie	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 answered	nsubj
2	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 merchant	det
4	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 answered	obj
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 consult	mark
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 consult	nsubj
7	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 consult	aux
8	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	9 consult	advmod
9	consult	consult	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 merchant	acl
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 sisters	nmod:poss
11	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 consult	obj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 talked	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 talked	cc
14	after	after	SCONJ	_	15 having	mark
15	having	have	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 talked	aux
16	talked	talk	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 answered	conj
17	over	over	ADP	_	19 matter	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 matter	det
19	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 talked	obl
20	with	with	ADP	_	21 them	case
21	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 matter	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 returned	punct
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 returned	nsubj
24	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 answered	conj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 tell	mark
26	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 returned	xcomp
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 tell	iobj
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	36 welcome	mark
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 welcome	nsubj
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 friends	cc
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 friends	nmod:poss
32	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	33 friends	nummod
33	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 he	conj
34	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 welcome	aux
35	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	36 welcome	cop
36	welcome	welcome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 tell	ccomp
37	to	to	PART	_	38 join	mark
38	join	join	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 welcome	xcomp
39	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 company	nmod:poss
40	company	company	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 join	obj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	Sadie	the merchant				vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent merchant=Eventuality
2	consult	must	Sadie	Sadie's sisters			first property	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sister=Theme
3	talk	gerund · perfect	Sadie not said here			the matter with merchants		vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	return	past	Sadie					tree rules
5	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	Sadie not said here		vizir			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
6	is	would	vizir				welcome property	tree rules
7	join	to-infinitive	vizir not said here	merchants's company				vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent company=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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