The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 20, sentence 27

The Sultan was so much struck by the circumstances that he ordered his private historian to write down an exact account of what had passed, so that in the years to come the miraculous escape of the four men who had thought themselves murderers might never be forgotten.

Who acts: circumstances, Sultan, four men · What happens: strike, order, write down, pass, come, think · To what, where: Sultan, circumstances, exact account, miraculous escape

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 (circumstances, Sultan, four men), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Sultan	det
2	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 struck	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 struck	aux:pass
4	so	so	ADV	_	5 much	advmod
5	much	much	ADV	_	6 struck	advmod
6	struck	strike	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	by	by	ADP	_	9 circumstances	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 circumstances	det
9	circumstances	circumstance	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 struck	obl
10	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 ordered	obj
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 ordered	nsubj
12	ordered	order	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 circumstances	acl:relcl
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 historian	nmod:poss
14	private	private	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 historian	amod
15	historian	historian	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 ordered	obj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 write	mark
17	write	write	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 ordered	xcomp
18	down	down	ADP	_	17 write	compound:prt
19	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 account	det
20	exact	exact	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 account	amod
21	account	account	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 write	obj
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 what	case
23	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 account	nmod
24	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 passed	aux
25	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	23 what	acl:relcl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 come	punct
27	so	so	ADV	_	33 come	advmod
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	33 come	mark
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 years	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 years	det
31	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 come	obl
32	to	to	PART	_	33 come	mark
33	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 struck	conj
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 escape	det
35	miraculous	miraculous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 escape	amod
36	escape	escape	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 forgotten	nsubj:pass
37	of	of	ADP	_	40 men	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 men	det
39	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	40 men	nummod
40	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 escape	nmod
41	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	43 thought	nsubj
42	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 thought	aux
43	thought	think	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	40 men	acl:relcl
44	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	43 thought	obj
45	murderers	murderer	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 thought	obj
46	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	49 forgotten	aux
47	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	49 forgotten	advmod
48	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	49 forgotten	aux:pass
49	forgotten	forget	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 come	advcl
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 struck	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	strike	past · passive	the circumstances	the Sultan		vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent subject=Instrument
2	order	past	Sultan	the circumstances		tree rules
3	write down not said to happen	to-infinitive	the circumstances not said here	a exact account		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent account=Theme
4	pass	past · perfect				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	come	to-infinitive	the circumstances not said here		year	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	think speech: other	past · perfect	the four men	circumstances = circumstance		vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme murderer=Attribute
7	not forget	might · passive		the miraculous escape of the four men		tree rules
8	escape		the four men			nom escape «act intransitive»: of=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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