The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 7, sentence 5

"We know no more than you," said the Calender to whom he had spoken.

Who acts: We, Calender, Sadie · What happens: know, say, speak · To what, where: more · 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 (We, Calender, Sadie), 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	_	3 know	punct
2	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 know	nsubj
3	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 said	ccomp
4	no	no	ADV	_	5 more	advmod
5	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 know	obj
6	than	than	ADP	_	7 you	case
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 more	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 know	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 know	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Calender	det
12	Calender	calendar	NOUN	Number=Sing Typo=Yes	10 said	obj
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 whom	case
14	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 said	obl
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 spoken	nsubj
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 spoken	aux
17	spoken	speak	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 whom	acl:relcl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	know in a quote	present	We	more	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer more=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert	past	the Calender		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to whom=Recipient clause=Topic
3	speak speech: other	past · perfect	Sadie		vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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