The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 9, sentence 54

What I have to say must not be overheard," he whispered; "command, I beg of you, that your dervishes retire into their cells, as night is approaching, and meet me in the court."

Who acts: I, appearance, dervishes · What happens: have, say, not overhear, whisper, beg, retire · To what, where: cells, me, court · 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 (I, appearance, dervishes), 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 say	nsubj:outer
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 have	nsubj
3	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	acl:relcl
4	to	to	PART	_	5 say	mark
5	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 overheard	aux
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 overheard	advmod
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 overheard	aux:pass
9	overheard	overhear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 say	ccomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 whispered	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 whispered	punct
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 whispered	nsubj
13	whispered	whisper	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 overheard	conj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 command	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 command	punct
16	command	command	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 say	parataxis
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 beg	punct
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 beg	nsubj
19	beg	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 say	parataxis
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 you	case
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 beg	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 retire	punct
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 retire	mark
24	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 dervishes	nmod:poss
25	dervishes	dervish	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 retire	nsubj
26	retire	retire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 beg	conj
27	into	into	ADP	_	29 cells	case
28	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 cells	nmod:poss
29	cells	cell	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 retire	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 approaching	punct
31	as	as	SCONJ	_	34 approaching	mark
32	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 approaching	obl:unmarked
33	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 approaching	aux
34	approaching	approach	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 retire	advcl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 meet	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 meet	cc
37	meet	meet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 say	conj
38	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	37 meet	obj
39	in	in	ADP	_	41 court	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 court	det
41	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 meet	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 say	punct
43	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	I					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	to-infinitive						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	not overhear	must · passive						vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»
4	whisper speech: assert in a quote	past	appearance					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	beg speech: request	present	I				of you	vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent
6	retire	present	your dervishes		houses's cells			vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	approach	present · progressive	your dervishes not said here			night		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	meet	infinitive		me	the court			vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Co-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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