The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 1, sentence 91

She thanked her father warmly for yielding to her wishes, and, seeing him still bowed down with grief, told him that she hoped he would never repent having allowed her to marry the Sultan.

Who acts: cost, seeing, Vizir · What happens: thank, yield, see, bow down, tell, hope · To what, where: father, cost, Sultan · 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 (cost, seeing, 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 thanked	nsubj
2	thanked	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 father	nmod:poss
4	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 thanked	obj
5	warmly	warmly	ADV	_	2 thanked	advmod
6	for	for	SCONJ	_	7 yielding	mark
7	yielding	yield	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 thanked	advcl
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 wishes	case
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 wishes	nmod:poss
10	wishes	wish	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 yielding	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 bowed	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 bowed	cc
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 seeing	punct
14	seeing	see	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 bowed	csubj
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 seeing	obj
16	still	still	ADV	_	17 bowed	advmod
17	bowed	bow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 thanked	conj
18	down	down	ADP	_	17 bowed	compound:prt
19	with	with	ADP	_	20 grief	case
20	grief	grief	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 bowed	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 told	punct
22	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 thanked	parataxis
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 told	iobj
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 hoped	mark
25	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 hoped	nsubj
26	hoped	hope	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 told	ccomp
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 repent	nsubj
28	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 repent	aux
29	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	30 repent	advmod
30	repent	repent	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 hoped	ccomp
31	having	have	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	30 repent	xcomp
32	allowed	allow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 having	parataxis
33	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 allowed	iobj
34	to	to	PART	_	35 marry	mark
35	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 allowed	xcomp
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 Sultan	det
37	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 marry	obj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 thanked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	thank speech: thank	past	cost		cost's father		warmly property	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent father=Theme
2	yield	gerund	cost not said here				to cost's wishes	vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to wish=Theme
3	see	gerund		father				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
4	bow down	past	seeing			still	with grief	vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	tell speech: assert	past			father			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
6	hope	past	cost					vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
7	not repent	would	Vizir					tree rules
8	have	gerund	Vizir not said here					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
9	allow	past			cost			vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer she=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
10	marry not said to happen	to-infinitive		the Sultan				vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sultan=Patient
11	wish		cost					nom wish «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent

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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