The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 24, sentence 102

Ask the king's permission to go with me for two or three days' hunting, and when he has given leave order two good horses to be held ready for each of us.

Who acts: you, king, two days · What happens: ask, go, give, leave, hold, permit · To what, where: permission, king, order · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, king, two days), 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	Ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 king	det
3	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 permission	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 king	case
5	permission	permission	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ask	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 go	mark
7	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Ask	ccomp
8	with	with	ADP	_	9 me	case
9	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 go	obl
10	for	for	ADP	_	16 hunting	case
11	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 days	nummod
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 three	cc
13	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 two	conj
14	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 hunting	nmod:poss
15	'	's	PART	_	14 days	case
16	hunting	hunting	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 go	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 leave	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 leave	cc
19	when	when	SCONJ	_	22 given	mark
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 given	nsubj:pass
21	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 given	aux
22	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 leave	advcl
23	leave	leave	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Ask	conj
24	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 leave	obj
25	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 horses	nummod
26	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 horses	amod
27	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 leave	obj
28	to	to	PART	_	30 held	mark
29	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	30 held	aux:pass
30	held	hold	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 leave	advcl
31	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 held	xcomp
32	for	for	ADP	_	33 each	case
33	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	31 ready	obl
34	of	of	ADP	_	35 us	case
35	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 each	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Ask	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	imperative	you not said here	the king's permission		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent permission=Recipient clause=Topic
2	go not said to happen	to-infinitive			with me; for two days's hunting	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with i=Beneficiary
3	give	present · perfect · passive		king		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
4	leave	infinitive	you not said here	order		vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent order=Theme horse=Attribute
5	hold	to-infinitive · passive	you not said here		ready property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»
6	permit		the king			nom permission «communication transitive»: poss=agent
7	hunt		two days			nom hunting «act 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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