The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 27, sentence 101

As soon, then, as Khacan returned home he sent for the dealers in female slaves, and charged them directly they had found such a one as he described to inform him.

Who acts: Khacan, Saouy · What happens: return, send, charge, find, describe, inform · To what, where: female slaves, Khacan, one, Saouy

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Khacan, Saouy), 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	As	as	ADP	_	2 soon	case
2	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 sent	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 soon	punct
4	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 sent	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 then	punct
6	as	as	SCONJ	_	8 returned	mark
7	Khacan	Khacan	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 returned	nsubj
8	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 sent	advcl
9	home	home	ADV	_	8 returned	advmod
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 sent	nsubj
11	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	for	for	ADP	_	14 dealers	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 dealers	det
14	dealers	dealer	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 sent	obl
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 slaves	case
16	female	female	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 slaves	amod
17	slaves	slave	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 sent	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 charged	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 charged	cc
20	charged	charge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 sent	conj
21	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 charged	obj
22	directly	directly	ADV	_	20 charged	advmod
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 found	nsubj
24	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 found	aux
25	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	20 charged	parataxis
26	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	28 one	det:predet
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 one	det
28	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 found	obj
29	as	as	SCONJ	_	31 described	mark
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 described	nsubj
31	described	describe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 found	advcl
32	to	to	PART	_	33 inform	mark
33	inform	inform	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 described	xcomp
34	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 inform	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 sent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	return	past	Khacan					home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	send	past	Saouy			female slaves	then	for the dealers	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in slave=Destination
3	charge	past	Saouy not said here	Khacan				directly property	vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location they=Theme
4	find	past · perfect	Khacan	such one					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Topic
5	describe	past	Saouy						vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
6	inform speech: other	to-infinitive	Saouy not said here		Saouy				vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient

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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