The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 7, sentence 60

He then bade me wait an instant, and vanished, returning in a few moments with a richly dressed lady of great beauty, but as he did not tell me her name, I thought it was better not to inquire.

Who acts: cousin, I, Madam · What happens: bade, wait, vanish, return, dress, not tell · To what, where: me, instant, name · 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 (cousin, I, Madam), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 bade	nsubj
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 bade	advmod
3	bade	bade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 bade	obj
5	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 bade	xcomp
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 instant	det
7	instant	instant	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wait	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 vanished	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 vanished	cc
10	vanished	vanish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 bade	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 returning	punct
12	returning	return	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 vanished	advcl
13	in	in	ADP	_	16 moments	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 moments	det
15	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 moments	amod
16	moments	moment	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 returning	obl
17	with	with	ADP	_	21 lady	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 lady	det
19	richly	richly	ADV	_	20 dressed	advmod
20	dressed	dress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 lady	amod
21	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 returning	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 beauty	case
23	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 beauty	amod
24	beauty	beauty	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 lady	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 tell	punct
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	31 tell	cc
27	as	as	SCONJ	_	31 tell	mark
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 tell	nsubj
29	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 tell	aux
30	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	31 tell	advmod
31	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 bade	conj
32	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 tell	iobj
33	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 name	nmod:poss
34	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 tell	obj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 thought	punct
36	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	37 thought	nsubj
37	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 tell	advcl
38	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 better	expl
39	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 better	cop
40	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	37 thought	ccomp
41	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	43 inquire	advmod
42	to	to	PART	_	43 inquire	mark
43	inquire	inquire	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	40 better	csubj
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 bade	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	bade	past	cousin	me		then		tree rules
2	wait	infinitive	cousin not said here	a instant				tree rules
3	vanish	past	cousin not said here					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	return	gerund	cousin not said here			moment	with a dressed lady of great beauty	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	dress	participle					richly property	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	not tell speech: assert	past · do-support	cousin	Madam's name	me			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient name=Topic
7	think speech: other	past	I					vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	is	past					good property	tree rules
9	not inquire speech: other	to-infinitive						vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
10	name		Madam					nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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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