The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 1, sentence 49

Now the Sultan Schahriar had a wife whom he loved more than all the world, and his greatest happiness was to surround her with splendour, and to give her the finest dresses and the most beautiful jewels.

Who acts: Sultan Schahriar, Schahriar, greatest happiness · What happens: have, love, be, give · To what, where: wife, finest dresses

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sultan Schahriar, Schahriar, greatest happiness), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 had	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Schahriar	det
3	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Schahriar	compound
4	Schahriar	Schahriar	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 had	nsubj
5	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 wife	det
7	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 had	obj
8	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 loved	obj
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 loved	nsubj
10	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 wife	acl:relcl
11	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 loved	obj
12	than	than	ADP	_	15 world	case
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 world	det:predet
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 world	det
15	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 more	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 surround	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 surround	cc
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 happiness	nmod:poss
19	greatest	great	ADJ	Degree=Sup	20 happiness	amod
20	happiness	happiness	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 surround	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 surround	cop
22	to	to	PART	_	23 surround	mark
23	surround	surround	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 had	conj
24	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 surround	obj
25	with	with	ADP	_	26 splendour	case
26	splendour	splendour	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 surround	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 give	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 give	cc
29	to	to	PART	_	30 give	mark
30	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 surround	conj
31	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 give	iobj
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 dresses	det
33	finest	fine	ADJ	Degree=Sup	34 dresses	amod
34	dresses	dress	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 give	obj
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 jewels	cc
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 jewels	det
37	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	38 beautiful	advmod
38	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 jewels	amod
39	jewels	jewel	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 dresses	conj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	the Sultan Schahriar	a wife		now		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Patient
2	love	past	Schahriar	a wife				tree rules
3	is	past	Schahriar's greatest happiness				with splendour; surround property	tree rules
4	give	to-infinitive	Schahriar's greatest happiness not said here	the finest dresses and the beautiful jewels	wife			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient dress=Theme

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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