The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 25, sentence 26

But Camaralzaman politely yet firmly persisted in his intentions, and at length the king desired the eunuch who had the guard of the princess's apartments to conduct the astrologer to her presence.

Who acts: king, eunuch, Prince · What happens: persist, desire, have, conduct, intend · To what, where: Camaralzaman, intentions, eunuch, length, guard, astrologer

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, eunuch, Prince), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 persisted	cc
2	Camaralzaman	Camaralzaman	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 persisted	nsubj:pass
3	politely	politely	ADV	_	6 persisted	advmod
4	yet	yet	ADV	_	6 persisted	advmod
5	firmly	firmly	ADV	_	6 persisted	advmod
6	persisted	persist	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 intentions	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 intentions	nmod:poss
9	intentions	intention	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 persisted	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 desired	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 desired	cc
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 length	case
13	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 desired	obl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 king	det
15	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 desired	nsubj
16	desired	desire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 persisted	advcl
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 eunuch	det
18	eunuch	eunuch	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 desired	obj
19	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 had	nsubj
20	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 eunuch	acl:relcl
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 guard	det
22	guard	guard	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 had	obj
23	of	of	ADP	_	27 apartments	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 princess	det
25	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 apartments	nmod:poss
26	's	's	PART	_	25 princess	case
27	apartments	apartment	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 guard	nmod
28	to	to	PART	_	29 conduct	mark
29	conduct	conduct	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 had	advcl
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 astrologer	det
31	astrologer	astrologer	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 conduct	obj
32	to	to	ADP	_	34 presence	case
33	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 presence	nmod:poss
34	presence	presence	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 conduct	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 persisted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	persist	participle · passive		Camaralzaman	Prince's intentions	yet	firmly, politely property	tree rules
2	desire	past	the king	the eunuch	length			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot eunuch=Theme
3	have	past	the eunuch	the guard of the princess's apartments				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent guard=Patient
4	conduct	to-infinitive	the eunuch not said here	the astrologer	princess's presence			vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent astrologer=Theme to presence=Destination
5	intend		Prince					nom intention «cognition 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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