The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 13, sentence 38

As Sindbad was relating his adventures chiefly on account of the porter, he ordered, before beginning his tale, that the burden which had been left in the street should be carried by some of his own servants to the place for which Hindbad had set out at first, while he remained to listen to the story.

Who acts: Sindbad, Hindbad · What happens: relate, order, begin, leave, carry, set out · To what, where: adventures, account, tale, burden, street, place · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Sindbad, Hindbad), 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	SCONJ	_	4 relating	mark
2	Sindbad	Sindbad	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 relating	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 relating	aux
4	relating	relate	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 ordered	advcl
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 adventures	nmod:poss
6	adventures	adventure	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 relating	obj
7	chiefly	chiefly	ADV	_	4 relating	advmod
8	on	on	ADP	_	9 account	case
9	account	account	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 relating	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 porter	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 porter	det
12	porter	porter	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 account	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 relating	punct
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 ordered	nsubj
15	ordered	order	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 beginning	punct
17	before	before	SCONJ	_	18 beginning	mark
18	beginning	begin	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 ordered	advcl
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 tale	nmod:poss
20	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 beginning	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 carried	punct
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	34 carried	mark
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 burden	det
24	burden	burden	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 carried	nsubj:pass
25	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 left	nsubj:pass
26	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 left	aux
27	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	28 left	aux:pass
28	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 burden	acl:relcl
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 street	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 street	det
31	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 left	obl
32	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 carried	aux
33	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	34 carried	aux:pass
34	carried	carry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 ordered	conj
35	by	by	ADP	_	36 some	case
36	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	34 carried	obl
37	of	of	ADP	_	40 servants	case
38	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 servants	nmod:poss
39	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 servants	amod
40	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 some	nmod
41	to	to	ADP	_	43 place	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 place	det
43	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 carried	obl
44	for	for	ADP	_	45 which	case
45	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	48 set	obl
46	Hindbad	Hindbad	PROPN	Number=Sing	48 set	nsubj:pass
47	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	48 set	aux
48	set	set	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	43 place	acl:relcl
49	out	out	ADP	_	48 set	compound:prt
50	at	at	ADP	_	51 first	case
51	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	48 set	obl
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 remained	punct
53	while	while	SCONJ	_	55 remained	mark
54	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	55 remained	nsubj
55	remained	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	48 set	conj
56	to	to	PART	_	57 listen	mark
57	listen	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	55 remained	xcomp
58	to	to	ADP	_	60 story	case
59	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	60 story	det
60	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 listen	obl
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 ordered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	relate	past · progressive	Sindbad	Sindbad's adventures	account of the porter	chiefly property	vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent adventure=Theme
2	order	past	Sindbad				vn order-58.3-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
3	begin	gerund	Sindbad not said here	Sindbad's tale			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tale=Eventuality
4	leave	past · perfect · passive		the burden	the street		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in street=Location
5	carry	should · passive		the burden	the place	by some	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to place=Destination
6	set out	past · perfect · passive		Hindbad		for the place	tree rules
7	remain	past	Hindbad				tree rules
8	listen	to-infinitive	Hindbad not said here			to the story	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to story=Theme
9	adventure		Sindbad				nom adventure «act transitive»: poss=agent
10	account			the porter			nom account «communication transitive»: of=patient
11	tell		Sindbad				nom tale «communication intransitive»: poss=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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