The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 10, sentence 38

He then passed into another room and ordered food to be brought, making signs to me to sit at table with him and eat.

Who acts: Sultan · What happens: pass, order, bring, make, sit, eat · To what, where: room, food, signs, me, table

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 (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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 passed	nsubj
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 passed	advmod
3	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	into	into	ADP	_	6 room	case
5	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	6 room	det
6	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 passed	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 ordered	cc
8	ordered	order	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 passed	conj
9	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ordered	obj
10	to	to	PART	_	12 brought	mark
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 brought	aux:pass
12	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 ordered	ccomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 making	punct
14	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 brought	advcl
15	signs	sign	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 making	obj
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 me	case
17	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 making	obl
18	to	to	PART	_	19 sit	mark
19	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 making	advcl
20	at	at	ADP	_	21 table	case
21	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 sit	obl
22	with	with	ADP	_	23 him	case
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 sit	obl
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 eat	cc
25	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 sit	conj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 passed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pass	past	Sultan			another room	then		vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into room=Initial_Location
2	order	past	Sultan not said here	food					vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent food=Recipient clause=Topic
3	bring not said to happen	to-infinitive · passive	Sultan not said here						vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»
4	make	gerund	Sultan not said here	signs	me				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset sign=Product
5	sit	to-infinitive	Sultan not said here			table		with Sultan	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at table=Location
6	eat	infinitive	Sultan not said here						vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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