The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 1, sentence 89

So the Sultan told the grand-vizir he might bring his daughter as soon as he liked.

Who acts: Sultan, Vizir · What happens: tell, bring, like · To what, where: grand vizir, daughter · 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 (Sultan, 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 told	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Sultan	det
3	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 told	nsubj
4	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 vizir	det
6	grand	grand	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 vizir	amod
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 grand	punct
8	vizir	vizir	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 told	obj
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 bring	nsubj
10	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 bring	aux
11	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 told	ccomp
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 daughter	nmod:poss
13	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 bring	obj
14	as	as	ADV	_	15 soon	advmod
15	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 bring	advmod
16	as	as	SCONJ	_	18 liked	mark
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 liked	nsubj
18	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 soon	advcl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	the Sultan	the grand vizir			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent vizir=Recipient clause=Topic
2	bring	might	Vizir		Vizir's daughter	soon property	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument daughter=Destination
3	like	past	Vizir				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/1/89/