The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 18, sentence 15

After many days I petitioned the king that I might return to my own country, to which he graciously consented.

Who acts: I, king · What happens: petition, return, consent · To what, where: king

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, king), 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	ADP	_	3 days	case
2	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 days	amod
3	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 petitioned	obl
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 petitioned	nsubj
5	petitioned	petition	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 king	det
7	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 petitioned	obj
8	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 return	nsubj
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 return	nsubj
10	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 return	aux
11	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 king	acl:relcl
12	to	to	ADP	_	15 country	case
13	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 country	nmod:poss
14	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 country	amod
15	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 return	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 consented	punct
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 which	case
18	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 consented	obl
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 consented	nsubj
20	graciously	graciously	ADV	_	21 consented	advmod
21	consented	consent	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 petitioned	conj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 petitioned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	petition	past	I	the king	day		tree rules
2	return	might	the king			to my own country result	vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to country=Result
3	consent	past	king			graciously property	vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to which=Theme

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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