The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 8, sentence 29

"Madam," said the young man, addressing Zobeida, "if you wish to know how I lost my right eye, I shall have to tell you the story of my whole life."

Who acts: Madam, you, Zobeida · What happens: say, address, wish, know, lose, have · To what, where: Zobeida, right eye, story, you · 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 (Madam, you, Zobeida), 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	_	2 Madam	punct
2	Madam	madam	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Madam	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Madam	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 man	det
7	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 man	amod
8	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 addressing	punct
10	addressing	address	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 said	advcl
11	Zobeida	Zobeida	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 addressing	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 have	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	28 have	punct
14	if	if	SCONJ	_	16 wish	mark
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 wish	nsubj
16	wish	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 have	advcl
17	to	to	PART	_	18 know	mark
18	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 wish	xcomp
19	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	21 lost	advmod
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 lost	nsubj
21	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 know	ccomp
22	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 eye	nmod:poss
23	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 eye	amod
24	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 lost	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 wish	punct
26	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 have	nsubj
27	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 have	aux
28	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 addressing	parataxis
29	to	to	PART	_	30 tell	mark
30	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 have	xcomp
31	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	30 tell	iobj
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 story	det
33	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 tell	obj
34	of	of	ADP	_	37 life	case
35	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 life	nmod:poss
36	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 life	amod
37	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 story	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	28 have	punct
39	"	"	PUNCT	_	28 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Madam			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	address	gerund	Madam not said here	Zobeida		tree rules
3	wish a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	you			vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	know not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	you not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	lose in a quote	past	Zobeida	my right eye		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Eventuality
6	have in a quote	shall	Zobeida			tree rules
7	tell speech: assert in a quote	to-infinitive	Zobeida not said here	the story of my whole life	you	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient story=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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