The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 19, sentence 9

My first care was to present myself before the Caliph, and give him an account of my embassy.

Who acts: first care, My · What happens: be, give, care, account · To what, where: account, Bagdad, embassy

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 (first care, My), 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	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 care	nmod:poss
2	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 care	amod
3	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 present	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 present	cop
5	to	to	PART	_	6 present	mark
6	present	present	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	6 present	obj
8	before	before	ADP	_	10 Caliph	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Caliph	det
10	Caliph	Caliph	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 present	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 give	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 give	cc
13	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 present	conj
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 give	iobj
15	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 account	det
16	account	account	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 give	obj
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 embassy	case
18	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 embassy	nmod:poss
19	embassy	embassy	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 account	nmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 present	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	My first care			before the Caliph	present property	tree rules
2	give	infinitive	My first care not said here	a account of my embassy	Bagdad			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient account=Theme
3	care		My					nom care «act intransitive»: poss=agent
4	account			my embassy				nom account «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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