The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Caliph Stork, sentence 35

Then he said to his Vizier, ‘That’s what I call a good bargain, Mansor.

Who acts: Selim, That, I · What happens: say, be, call · To what, where: Vizier, good bargain · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Caliph Stork. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Selim, That, I), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 said	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 Vizier	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 Vizier	nmod:poss
6	Vizier	Vizier	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 said	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 what	punct
8	‘	'	PUNCT	_	11 what	punct
9	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 what	nsubj
10	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 what	cop
11	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 said	ccomp
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 call	nsubj
13	call	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 what	acl:relcl
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 bargain	det
15	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 bargain	amod
16	bargain	bargain	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 call	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 Mansor	punct
18	Mansor	Mansor	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 bargain	appos
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Selim		Selim's Vizier	then	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to vizier=Recipient
2	is a	present	That				tree rules
3	call	present	I	a good bargain			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent bargain=Recipient

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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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