The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 11, sentence 6

As soon as the Sultan recovered from the severe illness which had seized him after the death of the princess he sent for me and plainly, though politely, informed me that my presence would always remind him of his loss, and he begged that I would instantly quit his kingdom, and on pain of death never return to it.

Who acts: Sultan, presence, I, princess · What happens: recover, seize, send, inform, remind, beg · To what, where: severe illness, princess, me, Sultan, kingdom, death · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sultan, presence, I, princess), 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	As	as	ADV	_	2 soon	advmod
2	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 recovered	advmod
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	6 recovered	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Sultan	det
5	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 recovered	nsubj
6	recovered	recover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	from	from	ADP	_	10 illness	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 illness	det
9	severe	severe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 illness	amod
10	illness	illness	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 recovered	obl
11	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 seized	nsubj:pass
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 seized	aux
13	seized	seize	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 illness	acl:relcl
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 seized	obj
15	after	after	ADP	_	17 death	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 death	det
17	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 seized	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 princess	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 princess	det
20	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 death	nmod
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 sent	nsubj
22	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 princess	acl:relcl
23	for	for	ADP	_	24 me	case
24	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 sent	obl
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 plainly	cc
26	plainly	plainly	ADV	_	22 sent	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 informed	punct
28	though	though	SCONJ	_	31 informed	mark
29	politely	politely	ADV	_	31 informed	advmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 politely	punct
31	informed	inform	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 recovered	conj
32	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 informed	iobj
33	that	that	SCONJ	_	38 remind	mark
34	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 presence	nmod:poss
35	presence	presence	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 remind	nsubj
36	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 remind	aux
37	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	38 remind	advmod
38	remind	remind	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 informed	ccomp
39	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 remind	iobj
40	of	of	ADP	_	42 loss	case
41	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 loss	nmod:poss
42	loss	loss	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 remind	obl
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 begged	punct
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 begged	cc
45	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 begged	nsubj
46	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 recovered	conj
47	that	that	SCONJ	_	51 quit	mark
48	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	51 quit	nsubj
49	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	51 quit	aux
50	instantly	instantly	ADV	_	51 quit	advmod
51	quit	quit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	46 begged	ccomp
52	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	53 kingdom	nmod:poss
53	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 quit	obj
54	,	,	PUNCT	_	61 return	punct
55	and	and	CCONJ	_	61 return	cc
56	on	on	ADP	_	57 pain	case
57	pain	pain	NOUN	Number=Sing	61 return	obl
58	of	of	ADP	_	59 death	case
59	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 pain	nmod
60	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	61 return	advmod
61	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 recovered	advcl
62	to	to	ADP	_	63 it	case
63	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	61 return	obl
64	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 recovered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	recover	past	the Sultan			the severe illness		soon property	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from illness=Source
2	seize	past · perfect · passive		the severe illness			after the death of the princess		tree rules
3	send	past	Sultan	the princess not said here				for me	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Theme
4	inform speech: other	past	the Sultan not said here		me			politely property	vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient S»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic
5	remind speech: other	would	my presence		Sultan			of Sultan's loss; always property	vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient PP.topic»: agent=Agent he=Recipient of loss=Topic
6	beg speech: request	past	presence						vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	quit	would	I	Sultan's kingdom				instantly property	vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kingdom=Source
8	not return	infinitive	the Sultan not said here		death	pain of death			vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to it=Result
9	die		the princess						nom death «event intransitive»: of=agent
10	pain			death					nom pain «state 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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