The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 21, sentence 75

When they had explained to the official the cause of complaint, he asked Alnaschar where he had obtained all the furniture that he had taken to his house the day before.

Who acts: brother, Alnaschar · What happens: explain, ask, obtain, take, cause · To what, where: official, Alnaschar, furniture, complaint · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brother, Alnaschar), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	4 explained	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 explained	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 explained	aux
4	explained	explain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 asked	advcl
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 official	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 official	det
7	official	official	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 explained	obl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 cause	det
9	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 official	conj
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 complaint	case
11	complaint	complaint	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cause	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 explained	punct
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 asked	nsubj
14	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	Alnaschar	Alnaschar	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 asked	iobj
16	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	19 obtained	advmod
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 obtained	nsubj
18	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 obtained	aux
19	obtained	obtain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 asked	ccomp
20	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	22 furniture	det:predet
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 furniture	det
22	furniture	furniture	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 obtained	obj
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 taken	mark
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 taken	nsubj
25	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 taken	aux
26	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	19 obtained	advcl
27	to	to	ADP	_	29 house	case
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 house	nmod:poss
29	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 taken	obl
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 day	det
31	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 taken	obl:unmarked
32	before	before	ADV	_	26 taken	advmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	explain speech: assert	past · perfect	brother		the official and the cause of complaint			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent to official=Recipient
2	ask speech: ask	past	Alnaschar		Alnaschar			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent alnaschar=Recipient clause=Topic
3	obtain	past · perfect	Alnaschar	all furniture				vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent furniture=Theme
4	take	past · perfect	Alnaschar			day	to Alnaschar's house result; before property	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to house=Result
5	cause			complaint				nom cause «event 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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