The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 2, sentence 21

Schahriar, who had been listening to Scheherazade with pleasure, said to himself, "I will wait till to-morrow; I can always have her killed when I have heard the end of her story."

Who acts: Schahriar · What happens: listen, say, wait, have, kill, hear · To what, where: Scheherazade, end · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Schahriar), 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	Schahriar	Schahriar	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 said	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 listening	punct
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 listening	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 listening	aux
5	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 listening	aux
6	listening	listen	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Schahriar	acl
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 Scheherazade	case
8	Scheherazade	Scheherazade	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 listening	obl
9	with	with	ADP	_	10 pleasure	case
10	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 listening	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Schahriar	punct
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 himself	case
14	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	12 said	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 wait	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 wait	punct
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 wait	nsubj
18	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 wait	aux
19	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 said	conj
20	till	till	ADP	_	23 morrow	case
21	to	to	ADP	_	23 morrow	case
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 to	punct
23	morrow	morrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 wait	obl
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 have	punct
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 have	nsubj
26	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 have	aux
27	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	28 have	advmod
28	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 said	parataxis
29	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 killed	nmod:poss
30	killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 have	xcomp
31	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	34 heard	advmod
32	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 heard	nsubj
33	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 heard	aux
34	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	30 killed	advcl
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 end	det
36	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 heard	obj
37	of	of	ADP	_	39 story	case
38	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 story	nmod:poss
39	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 end	nmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	28 have	punct
41	"	"	PUNCT	_	28 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	listen	past · perfect · progressive	Schahriar		Scheherazade		with pleasure	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to scheherazade=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	Schahriar		Scheherazade			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient clause=Topic
3	wait in a quote	future	Schahriar			till morrow		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	have in a quote	can	Schahriar				always property	tree rules
5	kill in a quote	participle	Schahriar not said here					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
6	hear in a quote	present · perfect	Schahriar	the end of Schahriar's story				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer end=Stimulus

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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