The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 10, sentence 12

Among others, one boat contained several officials, who asked to see the merchants on board, and informed them that they had been sent by the Sultan in token of welcome, and to beg them each to write a few lines on a roll of paper. "

Who acts: one boat, several officials, Sultan · What happens: contain, ask, see, inform, send, beg · To what, where: several officials, merchants, board, boats, token, each · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one boat, several officials, Sultan), 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	Among	among	ADP	_	2 others	case
2	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 contained	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 others	punct
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 boat	nummod
5	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 contained	nsubj
6	contained	contain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 officials	amod
8	officials	official	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 contained	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 asked	punct
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 asked	nsubj
11	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 officials	acl:relcl
12	to	to	PART	_	13 see	mark
13	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 asked	xcomp
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 merchants	det
15	merchants	merchant	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 see	obj
16	on	on	ADP	_	17 board	case
17	board	board	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 merchants	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 informed	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 informed	cc
20	informed	inform	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 contained	conj
21	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 informed	iobj
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 sent	mark
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 sent	nsubj:pass
24	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 sent	aux
25	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	26 sent	aux:pass
26	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 informed	ccomp
27	by	by	ADP	_	29 Sultan	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 Sultan	det
29	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 sent	obl
30	in	in	ADP	_	31 token	case
31	token	token	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 sent	obl
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 welcome	case
33	welcome	welcome	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 token	nmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 beg	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 beg	cc
36	to	to	PART	_	37 beg	mark
37	beg	beg	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 contained	conj
38	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 beg	obj
39	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	37 beg	obj
40	to	to	PART	_	41 write	mark
41	write	write	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 beg	advcl
42	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	44 lines	det
43	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 lines	amod
44	lines	line	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 write	obj
45	on	on	ADP	_	47 roll	case
46	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	47 roll	det
47	roll	roll	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 write	obl
48	of	of	ADP	_	49 paper	case
49	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 roll	nmod
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 contained	punct
51	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 contained	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	contain	past	one boat	several officials			among others	vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot official=Theme
2	ask speech: ask	past	several officials					vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	see not said to happen	to-infinitive	several officials not said here	the merchants		board		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer merchant=Stimulus
4	inform speech: other	past	one boat not said here		boats = boat			vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient S»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
5	send	past · perfect · passive	the Sultan	boats = boat		token of welcome		vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent subject=Theme in token=Destination
6	beg speech: request	to-infinitive	one boat not said here	each	boats = boat			tree rules
7	write	to-infinitive	one boat not said here	a few lines		a roll of paper		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent line=Theme on roll=Destination
8	roll			paper				nom roll «event transitive»: of=patient

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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