The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 13, sentence 19

However the lackey promised him that it should be taken care of, and urged him to obey the call so pressingly that at last the porter was obliged to yield.

Who acts: lackey · What happens: promise, take, urge, obey, oblige, yield · To what, where: Sindbad, it, call, last porter

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lackey), 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	However	however	ADV	_	4 promised	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 lackey	det
3	lackey	lackey	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 promised	nsubj
4	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 promised	iobj
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 taken	mark
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 taken	nsubj:pass
8	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 taken	aux
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 taken	aux:pass
10	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 promised	advcl
11	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 taken	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	10 taken	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 urged	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 urged	cc
15	urged	urge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 promised	conj
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 urged	iobj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 obey	mark
18	obey	obey	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 urged	xcomp
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 call	det
20	call	call	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 obey	obj
21	so	so	ADV	_	22 pressingly	advmod
22	pressingly	pressingly	ADV	_	18 obey	advmod
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 obliged	mark
24	at	at	ADP	_	25 last	case
25	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 porter	amod
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 porter	det
27	porter	porter	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 obliged	nsubj:pass
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 obliged	aux:pass
29	obliged	oblige	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 obey	advcl
30	to	to	PART	_	31 yield	mark
31	yield	yield	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 obliged	xcomp
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 promised	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	promise speech: promise	past	the lackey		Sindbad	however property	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	take	should · passive		it			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme care=Destination
3	urge	past	the lackey not said here		Sindbad		vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
4	obey not said to happen	to-infinitive	the lackey not said here	the call		pressingly property	vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent call=Theme
5	oblige	past · passive		the last porter			vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result
6	yield	to-infinitive					vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «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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