The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 1, sentence 56

The grand-vizir himself was the father of two daughters, of whom the elder was called Scheherazade, and the younger Dinarzade.

Who acts: grand vizir · What happens: be, call · To what, where: father, elder · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (grand vizir), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 vizir	det
2	grand	grand	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 vizir	amod
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 grand	punct
4	vizir	vizir	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 father	nsubj
5	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	8 father	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 father	cop
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 father	det
8	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 daughters	case
10	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 daughters	nummod
11	daughters	daughter	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 father	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 called	punct
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 whom	case
14	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 called	obl
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 elder	det
16	elder	elder	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 called	nsubj:pass
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 called	aux:pass
18	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 father	conj
19	Scheherazade	Scheherazade	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 called	xcomp
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 Dinarzade	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 Dinarzade	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 Dinarzade	det
23	younger	young	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	24 Dinarzade	amod
24	Dinarzade	Dinarzade	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 father	conj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 father	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the grand vizir	the father and the younger Dinarzade				of two daughters	tree rules
2	call	past · passive		the elder				of the father and the younger Dinarzade	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=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 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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