The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 22, sentence 7

After ordering a variety of dishes (which never came) to be placed on the table, and discussing the merits of each one, the Barmecide declared that having dined so well, they would now proceed to take their wine.

Who acts: Barmecide, dishes, merits · What happens: order, not come, place, discuss, declare, dine · To what, where: variety, table, merits, wine

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 (Barmecide, dishes, merits), 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	After	after	SCONJ	_	2 ordering	mark
2	ordering	order	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	29 declared	advcl
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 variety	det
4	variety	variety	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ordering	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 dishes	case
6	dishes	dish	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 variety	nmod
7	(	(	PUNCT	_	10 came	punct
8	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 came	nsubj
9	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	10 came	advmod
10	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 dishes	acl:relcl
11	)	)	PUNCT	_	10 came	punct
12	to	to	PART	_	14 placed	mark
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 placed	aux:pass
14	placed	place	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 came	advcl
15	on	on	ADP	_	17 table	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 table	det
17	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 placed	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 discussing	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 discussing	cc
20	discussing	discuss	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 ordering	conj
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 merits	det
22	merits	merit	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 discussing	obj
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 one	case
24	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	25 one	det
25	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 merits	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 ordering	punct
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 Barmecide	det
28	Barmecide	Barmecide	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 declared	nsubj
29	declared	declare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
30	that	that	SCONJ	_	32 dined	mark
31	having	have	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	32 dined	aux
32	dined	dine	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	29 declared	xcomp
33	so	so	ADV	_	34 well	advmod
34	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	32 dined	advmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 proceed	punct
36	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 proceed	nsubj
37	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 proceed	aux
38	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	39 proceed	advmod
39	proceed	proceed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 declared	conj
40	to	to	PART	_	41 take	mark
41	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 proceed	xcomp
42	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 wine	nmod:poss
43	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 take	obj
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	29 declared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	order	gerund	the Barmecide not said here	a variety of dishes				vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent variety=Theme
2	not come	past	dishes					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	place	to-infinitive · passive	dishes not said here		the table			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: on table=Destination
4	discuss speech: other	gerund	the Barmecide not said here	the merits of each one				vn chit_chat-37.6-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent merit=Topic
5	declare speech: other	past	the Barmecide					vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
6	dine	gerund · perfect	the Barmecide not said here				well property	vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	proceed	would	merits = merit			now		vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
8	take	to-infinitive	merits = merit not said here	merits's wine				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wine=Theme

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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