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The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 20, sentence 1

On hearing the declaration of the Jewish doctor, the chief of police commanded that he should be led to the gallows, and the Sultan's purveyor go free.

Who acts: chief, purveyor · What happens: hear, command, lead, go, declare · To what, where: declaration, chief, gallows, Jewish doctor · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (chief, purveyor), 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

markadvcldetobjcasedetamodnmodpunctdetnsubjcasenmodmarknsubjauxaux:passadvclcasedetoblpunctccdetnmod:posscasensubjconjxcomppunctrootOnSCONJhearingVERBtheDETdeclarationNOUNofADPtheDETJewishADJdoctorNOUN,PUNCTtheDETchiefNOUNofADPpoliceNOUNcommandedVERBthatSCONJhePRONshouldAUXbeAUXledVERBtoADPtheDETgallowsNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJtheDETSultanPROPN'sPARTpurveyorNOUNgoVERBfreeADJ.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1OnonSCONJ_2 hearingmark
2hearinghearVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part14 commandedadvcl
3thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art4 declarationdet
4declarationdeclarationNOUNNumber=Sing2 hearingobj
5ofofADP_8 doctorcase
6thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art8 doctordet
7JewishJewishADJDegree=Pos8 doctoramod
8doctordoctorNOUNNumber=Sing4 declarationnmod
9,,PUNCT_2 hearingpunct
10thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art11 chiefdet
11chiefchiefNOUNNumber=Sing14 commandednsubj
12ofofADP_13 policecase
13policepoliceNOUNNumber=Plur11 chiefnmod
14commandedcommandVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
15thatthatSCONJ_19 ledmark
16hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs19 lednsubj
17shouldshouldAUXVerbForm=Fin19 ledaux
18bebeAUXVerbForm=Inf19 ledaux:pass
19ledleadVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass14 commandedadvcl
20totoADP_22 gallowscase
21thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art22 gallowsdet
22gallowsgallowsNOUNNumber=Plur19 ledobl
23,,PUNCT_29 gopunct
24andandCCONJ_29 gocc
25thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art26 Sultandet
26SultanSultanPROPNNumber=Sing28 purveyornmod:poss
27's'sPART_26 Sultancase
28purveyorpurveyorNOUNNumber=Sing29 gonsubj
29gogoVERBVerbForm=Inf14 commandedconj
30freefreeADJDegree=Pos29 goxcomp
31..PUNCT_14 commandedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1heargerundthe chief of police not said herethe declaration of the Jewish doctorvn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer declaration=Stimulus
2commandpastthe chief of policevn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent
3leadshould · passivechiefthe gallowsvn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to gallows=Destination
4goinfinitivethe Sultan's purveyorfree propertyvn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5declarethe Jewish doctornom declaration «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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