The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 24, sentence 35

The prime minister, who was the only person admitted, felt it his duty at last to tell the king how much the court and all the people complained of his seclusion, and how bad it was for the nation.

Who acts: prime minister, people, affair · What happens: be, admit, feel, tell, complain · To what, where: only person, affair, last, much court, king · 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 (prime minister, people, affair), 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	3 minister	det
2	prime	prime	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 minister	amod
3	minister	minister	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 felt	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 person	punct
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 person	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 person	cop
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 person	det
8	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 person	amod
9	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 minister	appos
10	admitted	admit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 person	acl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 minister	punct
12	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 felt	obj
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 duty	nmod:poss
15	duty	duty	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 felt	obj
16	at	at	ADP	_	17 last	case
17	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 felt	obl
18	to	to	PART	_	19 tell	mark
19	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 felt	advcl
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 king	det
21	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 tell	obj
22	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	23 much	advmod
23	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 court	amod
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 court	det
25	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 tell	obj
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 complained	cc
27	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	29 people	det:predet
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 people	det
29	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 complained	nsubj
30	complained	complain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 tell	conj
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 seclusion	case
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 seclusion	nmod:poss
33	seclusion	seclusion	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 complained	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 bad	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 bad	cc
36	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	37 bad	advmod
37	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 felt	conj
38	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 nation	nsubj
39	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 nation	cop
40	for	for	ADP	_	42 nation	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 nation	det
42	nation	nation	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 bad	parataxis
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 felt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the prime minister	the only person				tree rules
2	admit speech: other	participle		the only person not said here				vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
3	feel	past	the prime minister	affair		last		vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme duty=Eventuality
4	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	the prime minister not said here	the much court	the king			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent king=Recipient court=Topic
5	complain speech: other	past	all people				of king's seclusion	vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	is	past	affair				for the nation	tree rules

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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