The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 22, sentence 68

The king took his vizir's advice, and the result of so many prayers for an heir to the throne was that a son was born to him the following year.

Who acts: king · What happens: take, bear, follow, result · To what, where: advice, son, king, many prayers

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 (king), 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 king	det
2	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	nsubj
3	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 vizir	nmod:poss
5	vizir	vizir	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 advice	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 vizir	case
7	advice	advice	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 result	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 result	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 result	det
11	result	result	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 born	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	15 prayers	case
13	so	so	ADV	_	14 many	advmod
14	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 prayers	amod
15	prayers	prayer	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 result	nmod
16	for	for	ADP	_	18 heir	case
17	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 heir	det
18	heir	heir	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 prayers	nmod
19	to	to	ADP	_	21 throne	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 throne	det
21	throne	throne	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 heir	nmod
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 born	aux:pass
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 born	mark
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 son	det
25	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 born	nsubj:pass
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 born	aux:pass
27	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 took	conj
28	to	to	ADP	_	29 him	case
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 born	obl
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 year	det
31	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	32 year	amod
32	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 born	obl:unmarked
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	the king	king's vizir's advice				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent advice=Theme
2	bear	past · passive		a son	king	year	the result of many prayers for a heir to the throne obl	vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
3	follow	gerund						vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	result			many prayers for a heir to the throne				nom result «phenomenon 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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