The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 10, sentence 42

Supper being over chessmen were brought, and the Sultan signed to me to know if I would play with him.

Who acts: Supper, Sultan, I · What happens: be, bring, sign, know, play · To what, where: chessmen, me

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 (Supper, Sultan, I), 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	Supper	supper	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 chessmen	nsubj
2	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 chessmen	cop
3	over	over	ADP	_	4 chessmen	case
4	chessmen	chessman	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 brought	nsubj:pass
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 brought	aux:pass
6	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 signed	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 signed	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Sultan	det
10	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 signed	nsubj
11	signed	sign	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 brought	conj
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 me	case
13	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 signed	obl
14	to	to	PART	_	15 know	mark
15	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 signed	advcl
16	if	if	SCONJ	_	19 play	mark
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 play	nsubj
18	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 play	aux
19	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 know	ccomp
20	with	with	ADP	_	21 him	case
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 play	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 brought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	gerund	Supper			chessmen		tree rules
2	bring	past · passive		chessmen				vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: subject=Theme
3	sign	past	the Sultan		me			vn instr_communication-37.4.1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Agent to i=Recipient
4	know	to-infinitive	the Sultan not said here					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	play a condition, not said to happen	would	I				with Sultan	vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with he=Co-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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