The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 8, sentence 21

He replied that I was right, and before he could say more the third calender came up.

Who acts: heart, I, third calender · What happens: reply, be, say, come up · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (heart, I, third calender), 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	2 replied	nsubj
2	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 right	mark
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 right	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 right	cop
6	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 replied	ccomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 say	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 say	cc
9	before	before	SCONJ	_	12 say	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 say	nsubj
11	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 say	aux
12	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 replied	conj
13	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	17 came	advmod
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 calender	det
15	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	16 calender	amod
16	calender	calendar	NOUN	Number=Sing Typo=Yes	17 came	nsubj
17	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 say	advcl
18	up	up	ADV	_	17 came	advmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 replied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	reply speech: assert	past	heart		vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	I	right property	tree rules
3	say speech: assert	could	heart		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	come up	past	the third calender		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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