The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 24, sentence 83

Marzavan, who swam well, threw himself into the sea and managed to land close to the palace, where he was kindly received, and after having a change of clothing given him was brought before the grand-vizir.

Who acts: Marzavan, clothing · What happens: swim, throw, manage, land, receive, have · To what, where: prince, sea, change, grand vizir

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 (Marzavan, clothing), 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	Marzavan	Marzavan	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 swam	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 swam	punct
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 swam	nsubj
4	swam	swim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 swam	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 threw	punct
7	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 swam	conj
8	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	7 threw	obj
9	into	into	ADP	_	11 sea	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 sea	det
11	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 threw	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 managed	cc
13	managed	manage	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 threw	conj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 land	mark
15	land	land	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 managed	xcomp
16	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 land	xcomp
17	to	to	ADP	_	19 palace	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 palace	det
19	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 close	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 received	punct
21	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	25 received	advmod
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 received	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 received	aux:pass
24	kindly	kindly	ADV	_	25 received	advmod
25	received	receive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 palace	acl:relcl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 brought	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 brought	cc
28	after	after	SCONJ	_	29 having	mark
29	having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	37 brought	advcl
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 change	det
31	change	change	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 having	obj
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 clothing	case
33	clothing	clothing	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 change	nmod
34	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 clothing	acl
35	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 given	obj
36	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 brought	aux:pass
37	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 swam	conj
38	before	before	ADP	_	42 vizir	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 vizir	det
40	grand	grand	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 vizir	amod
41	-	-	PUNCT	_	40 grand	punct
42	vizir	vizir	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 brought	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 swam	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	swim	past	Marzavan			well property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	throw	past	Marzavan not said here	prince		into the sea result	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer himself=Theme into sea=Result
3	manage	past	Marzavan not said here				vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	land	to-infinitive	Marzavan not said here			close property	vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	receive	past · passive		prince		kindly property	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
6	have	gerund		a change of clothing			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent change=Patient
7	give	participle	clothing not said here	prince			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
8	bring	past · passive	Marzavan not said here		the grand vizir		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: before vizir=Destination
9	change		clothing				nom change «event intransitive»: of=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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