The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 24, sentence 36

He urged the sultan to remove with the prince to a lovely little island close by, whence he could easily attend public audiences, and where the charming scenery and fine air would do the invalid so much good as to enable him to bear his father's occasional absence.

Who acts: minister, charming scenery, father · What happens: urge, remove, attend, charm, do, enable · To what, where: sultan, lovely little island, public audiences, invalid, minister, occasional absence

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 (minister, charming scenery, father), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 urged	nsubj
2	urged	urge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sultan	det
4	sultan	sultan	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 urged	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 remove	mark
6	remove	remove	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 urged	xcomp
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 prince	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 prince	det
9	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 remove	obl
10	to	to	ADP	_	14 island	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 island	det
12	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 island	amod
13	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 island	amod
14	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 remove	obl
15	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 island	amod
16	by	by	ADP	_	15 close	fixed
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 attend	punct
18	whence	whence	ADV	PronType=Int	22 attend	advmod
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 attend	nsubj
20	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 attend	aux
21	easily	easily	ADV	_	22 attend	advmod
22	attend	attend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 remove	conj
23	public	public	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 audiences	amod
24	audiences	audience	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 attend	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 do	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 do	cc
27	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	35 do	advmod
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 scenery	det
29	charming	charm	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	30 scenery	amod
30	scenery	scenery	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 do	nsubj
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 air	cc
32	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 air	amod
33	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 scenery	conj
34	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 do	aux
35	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 urged	parataxis
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 invalid	det
37	invalid	invalid	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 do	obj
38	so	so	ADV	_	39 much	advmod
39	much	much	ADV	_	40 good	advmod
40	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 do	conj
41	as	as	SCONJ	_	43 enable	mark
42	to	to	PART	_	43 enable	mark
43	enable	enable	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	40 good	advcl
44	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 enable	obj
45	to	to	PART	_	46 bear	mark
46	bear	bear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	43 enable	xcomp
47	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	48 father	nmod:poss
48	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 absence	nmod:poss
49	's	's	PART	_	48 father	case
50	occasional	occasional	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 absence	amod
51	absence	absence	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 bear	obj
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 urged	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	urge	past	minister	the sultan			vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent sultan=Recipient clause=Topic
2	remove not said to happen	to-infinitive	minister not said here		a lovely little island	with the prince	vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to island=Destination
3	attend	could	minister	public audiences		easily, whence property	vn attend-107.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme audience=Goal
4	charm	gerund					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
5	do	would	the charming scenery and fine air	the invalid			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent invalid=Eventuality
6	enable	to-infinitive	the charming scenery and fine air not said here	minister			tree rules
7	bear	to-infinitive	minister not said here	minister's father's occasional absence			vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent absence=Patient
8	absent		minister's father				nom absence «state 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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