The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 18, sentence 16

Moreover, he loaded me with rich gifts, and when I went to take leave of him he entrusted me with a royal present and a letter to the Commander of the Faithful, our sovereign lord, saying, "I pray you give these to the Caliph Haroun al Raschid, and assure him of my friendship."

Who acts: king, I, you · What happens: load, go, take, entrust, say, pray · To what, where: me, leave, these, Haroun al, king · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (king, I, you), 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	Moreover	moreover	ADV	_	4 loaded	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Moreover	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 loaded	nsubj
4	loaded	load	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 loaded	obj
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 gifts	case
7	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 gifts	amod
8	gifts	gift	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 loaded	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 went	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 went	cc
11	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	13 went	advmod
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 went	nsubj
13	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 loaded	conj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 take	mark
15	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 went	xcomp
16	leave	leave	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 take	obj
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 him	case
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 leave	nmod
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 entrusted	nsubj
20	entrusted	entrust	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 leave	acl:relcl
21	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 entrusted	obj
22	with	with	ADP	_	25 present	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 present	det
24	royal	royal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 present	amod
25	present	present	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 entrusted	obl
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 letter	cc
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 letter	det
28	letter	letter	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 present	conj
29	to	to	ADP	_	31 Commander	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 Commander	det
31	Commander	Commander	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 letter	nmod
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 Faithful	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 Faithful	det
34	Faithful	faithful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 Commander	nmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 lord	punct
36	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 lord	nmod:poss
37	sovereign	sovereign	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 lord	compound
38	lord	lord	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 present	conj
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 saying	punct
40	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 went	advcl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 pray	punct
42	"	"	PUNCT	_	44 pray	punct
43	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	44 pray	nsubj
44	pray	pray	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	40 saying	ccomp
45	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	46 give	nsubj
46	give	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	44 pray	conj
47	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	46 give	obj
48	to	to	ADP	_	52 al	case
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 al	det
50	Caliph	Caliph	PROPN	Number=Sing	51 Haroun	compound
51	Haroun	Haroun	PROPN	Number=Sing	52 al	compound
52	al	Al	PROPN	Number=Sing	46 give	obl
53	Raschid	Raschid	PROPN	Number=Sing	52 al	flat
54	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 assure	punct
55	and	and	CCONJ	_	56 assure	cc
56	assure	assure	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 loaded	conj
57	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	56 assure	obj
58	of	of	ADP	_	60 friendship	case
59	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	60 friendship	nmod:poss
60	friendship	friendship	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 assure	obl
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	56 assure	punct
62	"	"	PUNCT	_	56 assure	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	load	past	king		me	with rich gifts; moreover property	vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent i=Destination with gift=Theme
2	go	past	I				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	take	to-infinitive	I not said here	leave of king			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leave=Theme
4	entrust	past	king	leave of king not said here	me	with a royal present and a letter to the Commander of the Faithful and our sovereign lord	vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent i=Recipient with present=Theme
5	say speech: assert	gerund	I not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	pray in a quote	present	I				vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot
7	give in a quote	present	you	these	the Haroun al		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent this=Theme to al=Recipient
8	assure in a quote	infinitive	king not said here		king	of my friendship	vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP PP.topic»: agent=Agent he=Recipient of friendship=Topic

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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