The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 19, sentence 12

By his orders this story and the others I had told him were written by his scribes in letters of gold, and laid up among his treasures.

Who acts: orders, scribes, Bagdad · What happens: tell, write, lay up, order, letter, treasure · To what, where: story, Bagdad, letters, treasures, gold · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (orders, scribes, Bagdad), 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	By	by	ADP	_	3 orders	case
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 orders	nmod:poss
3	orders	order	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 told	obl
4	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 story	det
5	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 told	nsubj:pass
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 others	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 others	det
8	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 story	conj
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 told	nsubj
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 told	aux
11	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 written	nsubj:pass
13	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 written	aux:pass
14	written	write	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 told	xcomp
15	by	by	ADP	_	17 scribes	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 scribes	nmod:poss
17	scribes	scribe	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 written	obl
18	in	in	ADP	_	19 letters	case
19	letters	letter	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 written	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 gold	case
21	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 letters	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 laid	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 laid	cc
24	laid	lay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 told	conj
25	up	up	ADP	_	24 laid	compound:prt
26	among	among	ADP	_	28 treasures	case
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 treasures	nmod:poss
28	treasures	treasure	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 laid	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past · perfect · passive	Bagdad's orders	this story and the others		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent subject=Recipient clause=Topic
2	write not said to happen	past · passive	Bagdad's scribes	Bagdad	letters of gold	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent subject=Theme in letter=Destination
3	lay up	participle	Bagdad's orders not said here		Bagdad's treasures	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent among treasure=Destination
4	order		Bagdad			nom order «communication transitive»: poss=agent
5	letter			gold		nom letter «communication transitive»: of=patient
6	treasure		Bagdad			nom treasure «possession 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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