The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 9, sentence 21

"But if he really is a stranger to me," she replied, "why should I tell a lie and cause his death?"

Who acts: man, genius · What happens: be, reply, tell, cause, die · To what, where: stranger, genius, lie, death · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, genius), 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	_	8 stranger	punct
2	But	but	CCONJ	_	8 stranger	cc
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 stranger	mark
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 stranger	nsubj
5	really	really	ADV	_	8 stranger	advmod
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 stranger	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 stranger	det
8	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 replied	ccomp
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 me	case
10	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 stranger	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 stranger	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 replied	punct
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 replied	nsubj
14	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 tell	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 tell	punct
17	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	20 tell	advmod
18	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 tell	aux
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 tell	nsubj
20	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 replied	ccomp
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 lie	det
22	lie	lie	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 tell	obj
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 cause	cc
24	cause	cause	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 tell	conj
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 death	nmod:poss
26	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 cause	obj
27	?	?	PUNCT	_	20 tell	punct
28	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	is a a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	man	a stranger	genius	tree rules
2	reply speech: ask	past	genius			vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	tell speech: assert in a quote	should	genius	a lie		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent lie=Recipient
4	cause in a quote	infinitive	genius not said here	man's death		vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition death=Patient
5	die in a quote		man			nom death «event intransitive»: 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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