The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 27, sentence 22

As soon as it was light next day the Princess Badoura sent for the captain, and made further inquiries about the merchant who owned the olive jars she had bought.

Who acts: separation, Princess Badoura, merchant, further inquiries, Badoura · What happens: be, send, make, own, jar, buy · To what, where: light next day, olive

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 (separation, Princess Badoura, merchant, further inquiries), 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	ADV	_	2 soon	advmod
2	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 sent	advmod
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	8 day	mark
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 day	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 day	cop
6	light	light	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 day	amod
7	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 day	amod
8	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sent	obl:unmarked
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Badoura	det
10	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Badoura	compound
11	Badoura	Badoura	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 sent	nsubj
12	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	for	for	ADP	_	15 captain	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 captain	det
15	captain	captain	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sent	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 made	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 made	cc
18	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 sent	conj
19	further	further	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 inquiries	amod
20	inquiries	inquiry	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 jars	nsubj
21	about	about	ADP	_	23 merchant	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 merchant	det
23	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 inquiries	nmod
24	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 owned	nsubj
25	owned	own	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 merchant	acl:relcl
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 olive	det
27	olive	olive	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 owned	obj
28	jars	jar	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 made	parataxis
29	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 bought	nsubj
30	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 bought	aux
31	bought	buy	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	28 jars	ccomp
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 sent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	separation	light next day		tree rules
2	send	past	the Princess Badoura		for the captain; soon property	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	make	past	the Princess Badoura not said here			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
4	own	past	the merchant	the olive		vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot olive=Theme
5	jar	present	further inquiries about the merchant			tree rules
6	buy	past · perfect	Badoura			vn accept-77.1 «NP V how S»: agent=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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