The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 26, sentence 37

The two princesses now planned out their future action, and agreed to combine to keep up the deception and to let Badoura continue to play a man's part until such time as there might be news of the real Camaralzaman.

Who acts: Badoura, princess · What happens: plan out, agree, combine, keep up, let, continue · To what, where: two princesses, deception, Badoura, part

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Badoura, princess), 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 princesses	det
2	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 princesses	nummod
3	princesses	princess	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 planned	nsubj:pass
4	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 planned	advmod
5	planned	plan	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	out	out	ADP	_	5 planned	compound:prt
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 action	nmod:poss
8	future	future	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 action	amod
9	action	action	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 planned	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 agreed	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 agreed	cc
12	agreed	agree	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 planned	parataxis
13	to	to	PART	_	14 combine	mark
14	combine	combine	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 agreed	xcomp
15	to	to	PART	_	16 keep	mark
16	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 combine	xcomp
17	up	up	ADP	_	16 keep	compound:prt
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 deception	det
19	deception	deception	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 keep	obj
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 let	cc
21	to	to	PART	_	22 let	mark
22	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 keep	conj
23	Badoura	Badoura	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 let	obj
24	continue	continue	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 let	xcomp
25	to	to	PART	_	26 play	mark
26	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 let	xcomp
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 man	det
28	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 part	nmod:poss
29	's	's	PART	_	28 man	case
30	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 play	obj
31	until	until	ADP	_	33 time	case
32	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 time	amod
33	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 play	obl
34	as	as	ADP	_	38 news	case
35	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	37 be	expl
36	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 be	aux
37	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	38 news	cop
38	news	news	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 play	obl
39	of	of	ADP	_	42 Camaralzaman	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 Camaralzaman	det
41	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 Camaralzaman	amod
42	Camaralzaman	Camaralzaman	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 news	nmod
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 planned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	plan out	participle · passive		the two princesses	now		tree rules
2	agree speech: agree	past					vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	combine not said to happen	to-infinitive					tree rules
4	keep up	to-infinitive		the deception			vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent deception=Theme
5	let	to-infinitive		Badoura			tree rules
6	continue	infinitive	Badoura not said here				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	play	to-infinitive	Badoura not said here	a man's part	time		vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Theme
8	is	infinitive				as news; of the real Camaralzaman	tree rules
9	act		princess				nom action «act intransitive»: 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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