The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 18, sentence 63

The King of Serendib received with satisfaction the assurance of the Caliph's friendliness toward him, and now my task being accomplished I was anxious to depart, but it was some time before the king would think of letting me go.

Who acts: King, I, task, me, friendliness, my · What happens: receive, accomplish, be, depart, think, let · To what, where: assurance, task, time, me

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, task, me), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 King	det
2	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 received	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 Serendib	case
4	Serendib	Serendib	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 King	nmod
5	received	receive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 satisfaction	case
7	satisfaction	satisfaction	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 received	obl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 assurance	det
9	assurance	assurance	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 received	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	14 friendliness	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Caliph	det
12	Caliph	Caliph	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 friendliness	nmod:poss
13	's	's	PART	_	12 Caliph	case
14	friendliness	friendliness	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 assurance	nmod
15	toward	toward	ADP	_	16 him	case
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 friendliness	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 accomplished	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 accomplished	cc
19	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	23 accomplished	advmod
20	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 task	nmod:poss
21	task	task	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 accomplished	nsubj:pass
22	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 accomplished	aux:pass
23	accomplished	accomplish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 received	conj
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 anxious	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 anxious	cop
26	anxious	anxious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 accomplished	parataxis
27	to	to	PART	_	28 depart	mark
28	depart	depart	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 anxious	xcomp
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 time	punct
30	but	but	CCONJ	_	34 time	cc
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 time	nsubj
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 time	cop
33	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	34 time	det
34	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 received	obl
35	before	before	SCONJ	_	39 think	mark
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 king	det
37	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 think	nsubj
38	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 think	aux
39	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 time	acl
40	of	of	SCONJ	_	41 letting	mark
41	letting	let	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	39 think	advcl
42	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	41 letting	obj
43	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 letting	xcomp
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 received	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	receive	past	the King of Serendib	the assurance of the Caliph's friendliness toward Caliph		with satisfaction	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent assurance=Theme
2	accomplish	gerund · passive		my task	now		vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
3	is	past	I			anxious property	tree rules
4	depart	to-infinitive	I not said here				vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is a	past	task	some time			tree rules
6	think speech: other	would	the king	some time not said here			vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot time=Theme
7	let	gerund	the king not said here	me			tree rules
8	go	infinitive	me not said here				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	assure		the Caliph's friendliness toward Caliph				nom assurance «cognition intransitive»: of=agent
10	task		my				nom task «act transitive»: 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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