The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 27, sentence 105

The dealer appearing at the appointed hour, Khacan found the slave beautiful beyond his expectations, and immediately gave her the name of "The Fair Persian."

Who acts: dealer, Saouy · What happens: appear, appoint, find, give, expect, name · To what, where: slave, name, treasurer, Fair Persian

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 (dealer, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 dealer	det
2	dealer	dealer	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 found	nsubj
3	appearing	appear	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 dealer	acl
4	at	at	ADP	_	7 hour	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 hour	det
6	appointed	appoint	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 hour	amod
7	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 appearing	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 dealer	punct
9	Khacan	Khacan	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 found	nsubj
10	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 slave	det
12	slave	slave	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 found	obj
13	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 found	xcomp
14	beyond	beyond	ADP	_	16 expectations	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 expectations	nmod:poss
16	expectations	expectation	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 beautiful	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 gave	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 gave	cc
19	immediately	immediately	ADV	_	20 gave	advmod
20	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 found	conj
21	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 gave	iobj
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 name	det
23	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 gave	obj
24	of	of	ADP	_	28 Persian	case
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	28 Persian	punct
26	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 Persian	det
27	Fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 Persian	amod
28	Persian	Persian	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 name	nmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 found	punct
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	appear	gerund	the dealer not said here			hour		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	appoint	participle						vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	find	past	the dealer	the slave			beautiful property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent slave=Topic
4	give	past	the dealer not said here	the name of the Fair Persian	treasurer		immediately property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient name=Theme
5	expect		Saouy					nom expectation «cognition transitive»: poss=agent
6	name			the Fair Persian				nom name «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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