The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 7, sentence 14

"Madam," answered the porter, "these gentlemen entreat you to explain to them why you should first whip the dogs and then cry over them, and also how it happens that the fainting lady is covered with scars.

Who acts: Madam, gentlemen, you, it · What happens: answer, entreat, explain, whip, cry, happen · To what, where: porter, you, gentlemen, dogs, fainting lady · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Madam, gentlemen, you, it), 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	_	2 Madam	punct
2	Madam	madam	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 answered	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Madam	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Madam	punct
5	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 porter	det
7	porter	porter	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 answered	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 entreat	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 entreat	punct
10	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	11 gentlemen	det
11	gentlemen	gentleman	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 entreat	nsubj
12	entreat	entreat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 answered	conj
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 entreat	obj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 explain	mark
15	explain	explain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 entreat	advcl
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 them	case
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 explain	obl
18	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	22 whip	advmod
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 whip	nsubj
20	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 whip	aux
21	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	22 whip	advmod
22	whip	whip	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 explain	advcl
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 dogs	det
24	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 whip	obj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 cry	cc
26	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	27 cry	advmod
27	cry	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 whip	conj
28	over	over	ADP	_	29 them	case
29	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 cry	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 happens	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 happens	cc
32	also	also	ADV	_	35 happens	advmod
33	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	35 happens	advmod
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 happens	nsubj
35	happens	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 answered	conj
36	that	that	SCONJ	_	41 covered	mark
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 lady	det
38	fainting	fainting	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 lady	compound
39	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 covered	nsubj:pass
40	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	41 covered	aux:pass
41	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	35 happens	advcl
42	with	with	ADP	_	43 scars	case
43	scars	scar	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 covered	obl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	Madam	the porter				vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent porter=Eventuality
2	entreat in a quote	infinitive	this gentlemen		you			vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
3	explain speech: assert in a quote	to-infinitive	this gentlemen not said here		gentlemen = gentleman			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent to they=Recipient
4	whip in a quote	should	you	the dogs			first property	vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent dog=Material
5	cry speech: express in a quote	infinitive	you not said here			then	over gentlemen = gentleman	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over they=Location
6	happen in a quote	present	it					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	cover in a quote	present · passive		the fainting lady			with scars	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with scar=Theme

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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