The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 22, sentence 69

Schahzaman sent noble gifts as thank offerings to all the mosques and religious houses, and great rejoicings were celebrated in honour of the birth of the little prince, who was so beautiful that he was named Camaralzaman, or "Moon of the Century."

Who acts: Schahzaman, noble gifts, honour · What happens: send, thank, celebrate, be, name, honour · To what, where: offerings, great rejoicings, honour, Schahzaman, birth

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 (Schahzaman, noble gifts, honour), 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	Schahzaman	Schahzaman	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 sent	nsubj
2	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	noble	noble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 gifts	amod
4	gifts	gift	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 thank	nsubj
5	as	as	ADV	_	6 thank	advmod
6	thank	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 sent	ccomp
7	offerings	offering	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 thank	obj
8	to	to	ADP	_	11 mosques	case
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 mosques	det:predet
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 mosques	det
11	mosques	mosque	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 thank	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 houses	cc
13	religious	religious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 houses	amod
14	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 mosques	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 celebrated	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 celebrated	cc
17	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 rejoicings	amod
18	rejoicings	rejoicing	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 celebrated	nsubj:pass
19	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 celebrated	aux:pass
20	celebrated	celebrate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 sent	parataxis
21	in	in	ADP	_	22 honour	case
22	honour	honour	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 celebrated	obl
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 birth	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 birth	det
25	birth	birth	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 honour	nmod
26	of	of	ADP	_	29 prince	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 prince	det
28	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 prince	amod
29	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 birth	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 beautiful	punct
31	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 beautiful	nsubj
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 beautiful	cop
33	so	so	ADV	_	34 beautiful	advmod
34	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 honour	amod
35	that	that	SCONJ	_	38 named	mark
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 named	nsubj:pass
37	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 named	aux:pass
38	named	name	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	34 beautiful	advcl
39	Camaralzaman	Camaralzaman	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 named	xcomp
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 Moon	punct
41	or	or	CCONJ	_	43 Moon	cc
42	"	"	PUNCT	_	43 Moon	punct
43	Moon	Moon	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 celebrated	obl
44	of	of	ADP	_	46 Century	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 Century	det
46	Century	Century	PROPN	Number=Sing	43 Moon	nmod
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sent	punct
48	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 sent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	send	past	Schahzaman				tree rules
2	thank speech: thank	present	noble gifts	offerings		to all mosques and religious houses	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent offering=Theme
3	celebrate	past · passive		great rejoicings	honour of the birth of the little prince	Moon of the Century obl	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
4	is	past	honour of the birth of the little prince			beautiful property	tree rules
5	name	past · passive		Schahzaman			vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
6	honour			the birth of the little prince			nom honour «state 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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