The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 24, sentence 59

An elderly emir present, fired with the desire to possess a young and lovely wife and to rule over a great kingdom, offered to try the magic arts with which he was acquainted.

Who acts: king · What happens: fire, possess, rule, offer, try, be · To what, where: elderly emir present, young wife, great kingdom, magic arts

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 (king), 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	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 present	det
2	elderly	elderly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 present	amod
3	emir	emir	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 present	compound
4	present	present	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fired	nsubj:pass
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 fired	punct
6	fired	fire	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 desire	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 desire	det
9	desire	desire	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fired	obl
10	to	to	PART	_	11 possess	mark
11	possess	possess	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 fired	advcl
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 wife	det
13	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 wife	amod
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 lovely	cc
15	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 young	conj
16	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 possess	obj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 rule	cc
18	to	to	PART	_	19 rule	mark
19	rule	rule	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 possess	conj
20	over	over	ADP	_	23 kingdom	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 kingdom	det
22	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 kingdom	amod
23	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 rule	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 offered	punct
25	offered	offer	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 kingdom	acl
26	to	to	PART	_	27 try	mark
27	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 offered	xcomp
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 arts	det
29	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 arts	amod
30	arts	art	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 try	obj
31	with	with	ADP	_	32 which	case
32	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	35 acquainted	obl
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 acquainted	nsubj
34	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 acquainted	cop
35	acquainted	acquainted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 arts	acl:relcl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 fired	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	fire	participle · passive		a elderly emir present		with the desire	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	possess	to-infinitive		a young wife			vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot wife=Theme
3	rule	to-infinitive			a great kingdom		vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	offer	participle		a great kingdom not said here			tree rules
5	try not said to happen	to-infinitive		the magic arts			vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent art=Eventuality
6	is	past	king			with the magic arts; acquainted property	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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