The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 10, sentence 41

I then took a peach and wrote on it some verses in praise of the Sultan, who was speechless with astonishment; but when I did the same thing on a glass from which I had drunk he murmured to himself, "Why, a man who could do as much would be cleverer than any other man, and this is only a monkey!"

Who acts: I, Sultan, man, this · What happens: take, write, be, do, drink, murmur · To what, where: peach, verses, same thing, glass, Sultan, monkey · 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 (I, Sultan, man, this), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 took	nsubj
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 took	advmod
3	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 peach	det
5	peach	peach	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 wrote	cc
7	wrote	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	conj
8	on	on	ADP	_	9 it	case
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 wrote	obl
10	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	11 verses	det
11	verses	verse	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 wrote	obj
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 praise	case
13	praise	praise	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 verses	nmod
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 Sultan	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Sultan	det
16	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 praise	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 speechless	punct
18	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 speechless	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 speechless	cop
20	speechless	speechless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 Sultan	conj
21	with	with	ADP	_	22 astonishment	case
22	astonishment	astonishment	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 speechless	obl
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	38 drunk	punct
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	38 drunk	cc
25	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	27 did	advmod
26	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 did	nsubj
27	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 drunk	advcl
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 thing	det
29	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 thing	amod
30	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 did	obj
31	on	on	ADP	_	33 glass	case
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 glass	det
33	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 did	obl
34	from	from	ADP	_	35 which	case
35	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	38 drunk	obl
36	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	38 drunk	nsubj
37	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 drunk	aux
38	drunk	drink	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	40 murmured	advcl
39	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 murmured	nsubj
40	murmured	murmur	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	conj
41	to	to	ADP	_	42 himself	case
42	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	40 murmured	obl
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 Why	punct
44	"	"	PUNCT	_	45 Why	punct
45	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	3 took	parataxis
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 cleverer	punct
47	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	48 man	det
48	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 cleverer	nsubj
49	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	51 do	nsubj
50	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	51 do	aux
51	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	48 man	acl:relcl
52	as	as	ADV	_	53 much	advmod
53	much	much	ADV	_	51 do	advmod
54	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	56 cleverer	aux
55	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	56 cleverer	cop
56	cleverer	clever	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 took	parataxis
57	than	than	ADP	_	60 man	case
58	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	60 man	det
59	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	60 man	amod
60	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 cleverer	obl
61	,	,	PUNCT	_	67 monkey	punct
62	and	and	CCONJ	_	67 monkey	cc
63	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	67 monkey	nsubj
64	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	67 monkey	cop
65	only	only	ADV	_	67 monkey	advmod
66	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	67 monkey	det
67	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	parataxis
68	!	!	PUNCT	_	67 monkey	punct
69	"	"	PUNCT	_	67 monkey	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	I	a peach			then		vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent peach=Theme clause=Attribute
2	write	past	I not said here	some verses		peach		in praise of the Sultan	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent verse=Theme on it=Destination
3	is	past	the Sultan					with astonishment; speechless property	tree rules
4	do	past	I	the same thing		a glass			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality
5	drink	past · perfect	I						vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from which=Source
6	murmur speech: other	past	Sultan		Sultan				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient
7	do in a quote	could	a man						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	is in a quote	would	a man					than any other man; clever property	tree rules
9	is a in a quote	present	this	a monkey					tree rules
10	praise			the Sultan					nom praise «communication 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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