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The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 27, sentence 56

After a few days the Princess Badoura promoted Camaralzaman to the post of grand treasurer, an office which he filled with so much integrity and benevolence as to win universal esteem.

Who acts: Princess Badoura, office · What happens: promote, fill, win · To what, where: Camaralzaman, universal esteem

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 (Princess Badoura, office), 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

casedetamodobldetcompoundnsubjobjcasedetoblcaseamodnmodpunctdetconjnsubjnsubjacl:relclcaseadvmodamodoblccconjmarkmarkadvclamodobjpunctrootAfterADPaDETfewADJdaysNOUNtheDETPrincessPROPNBadouraPROPNpromotedVERBCamaralzamanPROPNtoADPtheDETpostNOUNofADPgrandADJtreasurerNOUN,PUNCTanDETofficeNOUNwhichPRONhePRONfilledVERBwithADPsoADVmuchADJintegrityNOUNandCCONJbenevolenceNOUNasSCONJtoPARTwinVERBuniversalADJesteemNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1AfterafterADP_4 dayscase
2aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art4 daysdet
3fewfewADJDegree=Pos4 daysamod
4daysdayNOUNNumber=Plur8 promotedobl
5thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art7 Badouradet
6PrincessPrincessPROPNNumber=Sing7 Badouracompound
7BadouraBadouraPROPNNumber=Sing8 promotednsubj
8promotedpromoteVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
9CamaralzamanCamaralzamanPROPNNumber=Sing8 promotedobj
10totoADP_12 postcase
11thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art12 postdet
12postpostNOUNNumber=Sing8 promotedobl
13ofofADP_15 treasurercase
14grandgrandADJDegree=Pos15 treasureramod
15treasurertreasurerNOUNNumber=Sing12 postnmod
16,,PUNCT_18 officepunct
17anaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art18 officedet
18officeofficeNOUNNumber=Sing12 postconj
19whichwhichPRONPronType=Rel21 fillednsubj
20hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs21 fillednsubj
21filledfillVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin18 officeacl:relcl
22withwithADP_25 integritycase
23sosoADV_24 muchadvmod
24muchmuchADJDegree=Pos25 integrityamod
25integrityintegrityNOUNNumber=Sing21 filledobl
26andandCCONJ_27 benevolencecc
27benevolencebenevolenceNOUNNumber=Sing25 integrityconj
28asasSCONJ_30 winmark
29totoPART_30 winmark
30winwinVERBVerbForm=Inf21 filledadvcl
31universaluniversalADJDegree=Pos32 esteemamod
32esteemesteemNOUNNumber=Sing30 winobj
33..PUNCT_8 promotedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1promotepastthe Princess BadouraCamaralzamandayto the post of grand treasurer and a officevn promote-102 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent camaralzaman=Theme
2fillpasta officewith much integrity and benevolencevn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with integrity=Instrument
3winto-infinitivea office not said hereuniversal esteemvn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent esteem=Eventuality

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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