The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 9, sentence 95

He made a sign to one of his vizirs, and whispered in his ear, "Fetch me that man who is standing out there, but take great care not to frighten him."

Who acts: Sultan, man · What happens: make, whisper, fetch, stand out, take, not frighten · To what, where: sign, one, ear, me, great care, Sultan · 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 (Sultan, man), 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 made	nsubj
2	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 sign	det
4	sign	sign	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 made	obj
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 one	case
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 made	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 vizirs	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 vizirs	nmod:poss
9	vizirs	vizir	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 one	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 whispered	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 whispered	cc
12	whispered	whisper	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 made	parataxis
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 ear	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 ear	nmod:poss
15	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 whispered	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 Fetch	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 Fetch	punct
18	Fetch	fetch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	12 whispered	parataxis
19	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 Fetch	obj
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 man	mark
21	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 Fetch	xcomp
22	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 standing	nsubj
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 standing	aux
24	standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 man	acl:relcl
25	out	out	ADV	_	26 there	advmod
26	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	24 standing	advmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 take	punct
28	but	but	CCONJ	_	29 take	cc
29	take	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 made	parataxis
30	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 care	amod
31	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 take	obj
32	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	34 frighten	advmod
33	to	to	PART	_	34 frighten	mark
34	frighten	frighten	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 take	advcl
35	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 frighten	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 made	punct
37	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	make	past	Sultan	a sign	one of Sultan's vizirs		tree rules
2	whisper speech: assert	past				Sultan's ear	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	fetch in a quote	infinitive		me			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
4	stand out in a quote	present · progressive	man			there	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	take in a quote	present		great care			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme
6	not frighten in a quote	to-infinitive		Sultan			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer

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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