The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 11, sentence 8

After wandering aimlessly through several countries, I resolved to come to Bagdad and request an audience of the Commander of the Faithful.

Who acts: I · What happens: wonder, resolve, come, request · To what, where: several countries, Bagdad, audience

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 (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	After	after	SCONJ	_	2 wandering	mark
2	wandering	wonder	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 resolved	advcl
3	aimlessly	aimlessly	ADV	_	2 wandering	advmod
4	through	through	ADP	_	6 countries	case
5	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 countries	amod
6	countries	country	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 wandering	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 wandering	punct
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 resolved	nsubj
9	resolved	resolve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	to	to	PART	_	11 come	mark
11	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 resolved	xcomp
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 Bagdad	case
13	Bagdad	Bagdad	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 come	obl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 request	cc
15	request	request	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 come	conj
16	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 audience	det
17	audience	audience	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 request	obj
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 Commander	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 Commander	det
20	Commander	Commander	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 audience	nmod
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 Faithful	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 Faithful	det
23	Faithful	faithful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 Commander	nmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 resolved	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	wonder speech: ask	gerund	I not said here		several countries	aimlessly property	vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	resolve	past	I				tree rules
3	come	to-infinitive	I not said here		Bagdad		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bagdad=Initial_Location
4	request	infinitive	I not said here	a audience of the Commander of the Faithful			vn beg-58.2 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent audience=Recipient

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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