The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 7, sentence 30

So he whispered hastily to the vizir, who was next to him, to reveal their secret.

Who acts: man, vizir · What happens: whisper, be, reveal · To what, where: vizir, secret

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 (man, 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 whispered	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 whispered	nsubj
3	whispered	whisper	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	hastily	hastily	ADV	_	3 whispered	advmod
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 vizir	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 vizir	det
7	vizir	vizir	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 whispered	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 him	punct
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 him	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 him	cop
11	next	next	ADV	_	13 him	advmod
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 him	case
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 vizir	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 reveal	punct
15	to	to	PART	_	16 reveal	mark
16	reveal	reveal	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 whispered	conj
17	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 secret	nmod:poss
18	secret	secret	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 reveal	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 whispered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	whisper speech: assert	past	man		the vizir	hastily property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to vizir=Recipient
2	is	past	the vizir			to mistress; next property	tree rules
3	reveal	to-infinitive	man not said here	others's secret			vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent secret=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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