The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 19, sentence 89

So the chief of police ordered a gallows to be erected, and sent criers to proclaim in every street in the city that a Christian was to be hanged that day for having killed a Mussulman.

Who acts: chief, criers · What happens: order, erect, send, proclaim, hange, kill · To what, where: gallows, criers, street, Christian, Mussulman

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 (chief, criers), 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	So	so	ADV	_	6 ordered	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 chief	det
3	chief	chief	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ordered	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 police	case
5	police	police	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 chief	nmod
6	ordered	order	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 gallows	det
8	gallows	gallows	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 ordered	obj
9	to	to	PART	_	11 erected	mark
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 erected	aux:pass
11	erected	erect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 ordered	advcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 sent	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 sent	cc
14	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 ordered	conj
15	criers	crier	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 sent	obj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 proclaim	mark
17	proclaim	proclaim	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 sent	xcomp
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 street	case
19	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	20 street	det
20	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 proclaim	obl
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 city	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 city	det
23	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 proclaim	obl
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 hanged	mark
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 Christian	det
26	Christian	Christian	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 hanged	nsubj:pass
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 hanged	aux:pass
28	to	to	PART	_	30 hanged	mark
29	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	30 hanged	aux:pass
30	hanged	hange	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 city	acl:relcl
31	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	32 day	det
32	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 hanged	obl:unmarked
33	for	for	SCONJ	_	35 killed	mark
34	having	have	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	35 killed	aux
35	killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	30 hanged	advcl
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 Mussulman	det
37	Mussulman	mussulman	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 killed	obj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 ordered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	order	past	the chief of police	a gallows				vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gallows=Theme
2	erect	to-infinitive · passive	the chief of police not said here					vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»
3	send	past	the chief of police not said here	criers				tree rules
4	proclaim	to-infinitive	criers not said here		every street		in the city	vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
5	hange	past · passive	criers not said here	a Christian		day		tree rules
6	kill	gerund · perfect	criers not said here	a Mussulman				vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mussulman=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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