The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 7, sentence 50

In order, madam, to explain how I came to lose my right eye, and to wear the dress of a Calender, you must first know that I am the son of a king.

Who acts: I, you · What happens: explain, come, lose, wear, know, be · To what, where: right eye, dress, son · 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 (I, you), 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 order	case
2	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 madam	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 order	punct
4	madam	madam	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 explain	punct
6	to	to	PART	_	7 explain	mark
7	explain	explain	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 madam	parataxis
8	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	10 came	advmod
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 came	nsubj
10	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 explain	ccomp
11	to	to	PART	_	12 lose	mark
12	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 came	xcomp
13	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 eye	nmod:poss
14	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 eye	amod
15	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 lose	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 wear	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 wear	cc
18	to	to	PART	_	19 wear	mark
19	wear	wear	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	7 explain	conj
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 dress	det
21	dress	dress	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 wear	obj
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 Calender	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 Calender	det
24	Calender	calendar	NOUN	Number=Sing Typo=Yes	21 dress	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 know	punct
26	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	29 know	nsubj
27	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 know	aux
28	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	29 know	advmod
29	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 explain	conj
30	that	that	SCONJ	_	34 son	mark
31	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 son	nsubj
32	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 son	cop
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 son	det
34	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 know	ccomp
35	of	of	ADP	_	37 king	case
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 king	det
37	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 son	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 madam	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	explain speech: assert	to-infinitive				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	come	past	I			tree rules
3	lose	to-infinitive	I not said here	my right eye		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Eventuality
4	wear	to-infinitive		the dress of a Calender		vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent dress=Theme
5	know	must	you		first property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6	is a	present	I	the son	of a king	tree rules

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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