The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 1, sentence 52

So every evening he married a fresh wife and had her strangled the following morning before the grand-vizir, whose duty it was to provide these unhappy brides for the Sultan.

Who acts: Schahriar, wife, world · What happens: marry, have, strangle, follow, be · To what, where: fresh wife

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 (Schahriar, wife, world), 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	So	so	ADV	_	5 married	advmod
2	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	3 evening	det
3	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 married	obl:unmarked
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 married	nsubj
5	married	marry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 wife	det
7	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 wife	amod
8	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 married	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 had	cc
10	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 married	conj
11	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 strangled	nsubj
12	strangled	strangle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 had	ccomp
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 morning	det
14	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 morning	amod
15	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 strangled	obl:unmarked
16	before	before	ADP	_	20 vizir	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 vizir	det
18	grand	grand	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 vizir	amod
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 grand	punct
20	vizir	vizir	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 strangled	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 duty	punct
22	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	23 duty	nmod:poss
23	duty	duty	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 vizir	appos
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 provide	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 provide	cop
26	to	to	PART	_	27 provide	mark
27	provide	provide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 duty	acl:relcl
28	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	30 brides	det
29	unhappy	unhappy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 brides	amod
30	brides	bride	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 provide	obj
31	for	for	ADP	_	33 Sultan	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 Sultan	det
33	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 brides	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 married	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	marry	past	Schahriar	a fresh wife	evening		vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Patient
2	have	past	Schahriar not said here				tree rules
3	strangle	past	wife		before the grand vizir; morning		vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	follow	gerund					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is	past	world			provide property	tree rules

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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