The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 22, sentence 57

His Highness desired that the history of the hunchback should be written down, and placed in the archives beside that of the barber, so that they might be associated in people's minds to the end of time.

Who acts: Highness, people · What happens: desire, write down, place, associate, mind · To what, where: history, archives, minds

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Highness, people), 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 Highness	nmod:poss
2	Highness	highness	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 desired	nsubj
3	desired	desire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 written	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 history	det
6	history	history	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 written	nsubj:pass
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 hunchback	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 hunchback	det
9	hunchback	hunchback	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 history	nmod
10	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 written	aux
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 written	aux:pass
12	written	write	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 desired	advcl
13	down	down	ADP	_	12 written	compound:prt
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 placed	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 placed	cc
16	placed	place	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 desired	conj
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 archives	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 archives	det
19	archives	archive	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 placed	obl
20	beside	beside	ADP	_	21 that	case
21	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	19 archives	nmod
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 barber	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 barber	det
24	barber	barber	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 that	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 associated	punct
26	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	31 associated	mark
27	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 so	fixed
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 associated	nsubj:pass
29	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 associated	aux
30	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	31 associated	aux:pass
31	associated	associate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 placed	conj
32	in	in	ADP	_	35 minds	case
33	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 minds	nmod:poss
34	's	's	PART	_	33 people	case
35	minds	mind	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 associated	obl
36	to	to	ADP	_	38 end	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 end	det
38	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 associated	obl
39	of	of	ADP	_	40 time	case
40	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 end	nmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 desired	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	desire	past	hunchback's Highness				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
2	write down	should · passive		the history of the hunchback			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	place	participle	hunchback's Highness not said here		the archives beside that		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in archive=Destination
4	associate	might · passive		archives = archive	people's minds	to the end of time	vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
5	mind		people				nom mind «cognition 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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