The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 27, sentence 103

At length, early one morning, while Khacan was on his way to the king's palace, a dealer, throwing himself in his way, announced eagerly that a Persian merchant, arrived late the previous evening, had a slave to sell whose wit and wisdom were equal to her incomparable beauty.

Who acts: Khacan, length, Persian merchant, wit · What happens: be, throw, announce, arrive, have, sell · To what, where: way, Saouy, length, slave

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, length, Persian merchant, wit), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 length	case
2	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 announced	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 morning	punct
4	early	early	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 morning	amod
5	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 morning	compound
6	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 length	parataxis
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 way	punct
8	while	while	SCONJ	_	13 way	mark
9	Khacan	Khacan	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 way	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 way	cop
11	on	on	ADP	_	13 way	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 way	nmod:poss
13	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 length	appos
14	to	to	ADP	_	18 palace	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 king	det
16	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 palace	nmod:poss
17	's	's	PART	_	16 king	case
18	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 way	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 dealer	punct
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 dealer	det
21	dealer	dealer	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 length	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 throwing	punct
23	throwing	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 length	acl
24	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	23 throwing	obj
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 way	case
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 way	nmod:poss
27	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 throwing	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 length	punct
29	announced	announce	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
30	eagerly	eagerly	ADV	_	29 announced	advmod
31	that	that	SCONJ	_	36 arrived	mark
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 merchant	det
33	Persian	persian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 merchant	amod
34	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 arrived	nsubj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 merchant	punct
36	arrived	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 announced	conj
37	late	late	ADV	Degree=Pos	36 arrived	advmod
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 evening	det
39	previous	previous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 evening	amod
40	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 arrived	obl:unmarked
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 had	punct
42	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 announced	conj
43	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	44 slave	det
44	slave	slave	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 had	obj
45	to	to	PART	_	46 sell	mark
46	sell	sell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 had	advcl
47	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	48 wit	nmod:poss
48	wit	wit	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 equal	nsubj
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 wisdom	cc
50	wisdom	wisdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 wit	conj
51	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	52 equal	cop
52	equal	equal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 sell	ccomp
53	to	to	ADP	_	56 beauty	case
54	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	56 beauty	nmod:poss
55	incomparable	incomparable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	56 beauty	amod
56	beauty	beauty	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 equal	obl
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	29 announced	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Khacan		Saouy's way		to the king's palace	tree rules
2	throw	gerund	length and a dealer not said here	Saouy	Saouy's way			vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent himself=Theme in way=Destination
3	announce speech: other	past			length and a dealer		eagerly property	vn order-58.3 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
4	arrive	past	a Persian merchant			evening	late property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	have	past		a slave				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent slave=Patient
6	sell	to-infinitive						vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent
7	is	past	wit and wisdom				to Majesty's incomparable beauty; equal 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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