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The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 20, sentence 22

The Sultan of Kashgar no sooner heard these words than he ordered an usher to go to the chief of police and to bring all the persons concerned in the hunchback's death, together with the corpse, that he wished to see once again.

Who acts: Sultan, usher, hunchback · What happens: hear, order, go, bring, concern, wish · To what, where: words, usher, chief, persons, death

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 (Sultan, usher, hunchback), 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

detnsubjcasenmodadvmodadvmoddetobjmarknsubjadvcldetobjmarkxcompcasedetoblcasenmodccmarkconjdet:predetdetobjaclcasedetnmod:posscaseoblpunctadvmodcasedetoblpunctmarknsubjconjmarkxcompadvmodadvmodpunctrootTheDETSultanPROPNofADPKashgarPROPNnoADVsoonerADVheardVERBtheseDETwordsNOUNthanSCONJhePRONorderedVERBanDETusherNOUNtoPARTgoVERBtoADPtheDETchiefNOUNofADPpoliceNOUNandCCONJtoPARTbringVERBallDETtheDETpersonsNOUNconcernedVERBinADPtheDEThunchbackNOUN'sPARTdeathNOUN,PUNCTtogetherADVwithADPtheDETcorpseNOUN,PUNCTthatSCONJhePRONwishedVERBtoPARTseeVERBonceADVagainADV.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art2 Sultandet
2SultanSultanPROPNNumber=Sing7 heardnsubj
3ofofADP_4 Kashgarcase
4KashgarKashgarPROPNNumber=Sing2 Sultannmod
5nonoADV_6 sooneradvmod
6soonersoonADVDegree=Cmp7 heardadvmod
7heardhearVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
8thesethisDETNumber=Plur PronType=Dem9 wordsdet
9wordswordNOUNNumber=Plur7 heardobj
10thanthanSCONJ_12 orderedmark
11hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs12 orderednsubj
12orderedorderVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin7 heardadvcl
13anaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art14 usherdet
14usherusherNOUNNumber=Sing12 orderedobj
15totoPART_16 gomark
16gogoVERBVerbForm=Inf12 orderedxcomp
17totoADP_19 chiefcase
18thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art19 chiefdet
19chiefchiefNOUNNumber=Sing16 goobl
20ofofADP_21 policecase
21policepoliceNOUNNumber=Plur19 chiefnmod
22andandCCONJ_24 bringcc
23totoPART_24 bringmark
24bringbringVERBVerbForm=Inf16 goconj
25allallDETPronType=Tot27 personsdet:predet
26thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art27 personsdet
27personspersonNOUNNumber=Plur24 bringobj
28concernedconcernVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass27 personsacl
29ininADP_33 deathcase
30thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art31 hunchbackdet
31hunchbackhunchbackNOUNNumber=Sing33 deathnmod:poss
32's'sPART_31 hunchbackcase
33deathdeathNOUNNumber=Sing28 concernedobl
34,,PUNCT_35 togetherpunct
35togethertogetherADV_24 bringadvmod
36withwithADP_38 corpsecase
37thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art38 corpsedet
38corpsecorpseNOUNNumber=Sing24 bringobl
39,,PUNCT_42 wishedpunct
40thatthatSCONJ_42 wishedmark
41hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs42 wishednsubj
42wishedwishVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin7 heardconj
43totoPART_44 seemark
44seeseeVERBVerbForm=Inf42 wishedxcomp
45onceonceADVNumForm=Word NumType=Mult44 seeadvmod
46againagainADV_44 seeadvmod
47..PUNCT_7 heardpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1hearpastthe Sultan of Kashgarthis wordssoon propertyvn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus
2orderpastSultana ushervn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent usher=Recipient clause=Topic
3go not said to happento-infinitivea usher not said herethe chief of policevn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to chief=Initial_Location
4bringto-infinitivea usher not said hereall personswith the corpse; together propertyvn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument person=Destination
5concernparticipleall persons not said herethe hunchback's deathvn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
6wishpastSultanvn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
7see not said to happento-infinitiveSultan not said hereagainonce propertyvn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
8diethe hunchbacknom death «event intransitive»: 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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