The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 8, sentence 79

Every tenth day, for five and twenty years, I have received a visit from him, but in case I should need his help at any other time, I have only to touch a talisman that stands at the entrance of my chamber.

Who acts: I, talisman, prince · What happens: receive, need, have, touch, stand, help · To what, where: visit, help, talisman, entrance

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 (I, talisman, prince), 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	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	3 day	det
2	tenth	tenth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 day	amod
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 received	obl:unmarked
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 years	punct
5	for	for	ADP	_	9 years	case
6	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 years	nummod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 twenty	cc
8	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 five	conj
9	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 day	acl:relcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 day	punct
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 received	nsubj
12	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 received	aux
13	received	receive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 visit	det
15	visit	visit	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 received	obj
16	from	from	ADP	_	17 him	case
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 visit	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 have	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	33 have	cc
20	in	in	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	24 need	mark
21	case	case	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 in	fixed
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 need	nsubj
23	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 need	aux
24	need	need	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 have	advcl
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 help	nmod:poss
26	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 need	obj
27	at	at	ADP	_	30 time	case
28	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	30 time	det
29	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 time	amod
30	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 need	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 need	punct
32	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 have	nsubj
33	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 received	parataxis
34	only	only	ADV	_	36 touch	advmod
35	to	to	PART	_	36 touch	mark
36	touch	touch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 have	xcomp
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 talisman	det
38	talisman	talisman	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 touch	obj
39	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	40 stands	nsubj
40	stands	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	38 talisman	acl:relcl
41	at	at	ADP	_	43 entrance	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 entrance	det
43	entrance	entrance	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 stands	obl
44	of	of	ADP	_	46 chamber	case
45	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	46 chamber	nmod:poss
46	chamber	chamber	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 entrance	nmod
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 received	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	receive	present · perfect	I	a visit		day	from prince	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent visit=Theme from he=Source
2	need	should	I	prince's help		time		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot help=Theme
3	have	present	I					tree rules
4	touch	to-infinitive	I not said here	a talisman				vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme talisman=Co-Theme
5	stand	present	a talisman		the entrance of my chamber			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at entrance=Location
6	help		prince					nom help «act 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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