The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 21, sentence 96

At last, in a room richly decorated with paintings, he saw an old man with a long white beard, sitting on a sofa, who received him with such kindness that my brother was emboldened to make his petition.

Who acts: Barmecide · What happens: decorate, see, sit, receive, embolden, make · To what, where: last room, old man, sofa, Barmecide, brother, petition

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 (Barmecide), 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	At	at	ADP	_	6 room	case
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 room	amod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 room	punct
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 room	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 room	det
6	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 saw	obl
7	richly	richly	ADV	_	8 decorated	advmod
8	decorated	decorate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 room	acl
9	with	with	ADP	_	10 paintings	case
10	paintings	painting	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 decorated	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 room	punct
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 saw	nsubj
13	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 man	det
15	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 man	amod
16	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 saw	obj
17	with	with	ADP	_	21 beard	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 beard	det
19	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 beard	amod
20	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 beard	amod
21	beard	beard	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 man	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 sitting	punct
23	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 saw	conj
24	on	on	ADP	_	26 sofa	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 sofa	det
26	sofa	sofa	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 sitting	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 received	punct
28	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 received	nsubj
29	received	receive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 sitting	conj
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 received	obj
31	with	with	ADP	_	33 kindness	case
32	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 kindness	amod
33	kindness	kindness	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 received	obl
34	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	38 emboldened	obj
35	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 brother	nmod:poss
36	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 emboldened	nsubj
37	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 emboldened	aux:pass
38	emboldened	embolden	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 kindness	acl:relcl
39	to	to	PART	_	40 make	mark
40	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 emboldened	advcl
41	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 petition	nmod:poss
42	petition	petition	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 make	obj
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	decorate	participle		a last room not said here		with paintings; richly property	vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with painting=Theme
2	see	past	Barmecide	a old man	a last room	with a long white beard	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus
3	sit	gerund	Barmecide not said here		a sofa		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on sofa=Location
4	receive	past		Barmecide		with such kindness	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
5	embolden	past · passive		my brother			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer that=Result
6	make	to-infinitive		Barmecide's petition			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset petition=Product
7	petition		Barmecide				nom petition «communication transitive»: 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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