The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 27, sentence 96

The king not only declared himself to be of this opinion, but charged Khacan to procure him a slave who should fulfil all these conditions.

Who acts: king, slave · What happens: not declare, be, charge, procure, fulfil · To what, where: King, Khacan, slave, conditions

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 (king, slave), 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 king	det
2	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 declared	nsubj
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 declared	advmod
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 declared	advmod
5	declared	declare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	5 declared	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	11 opinion	mark
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 opinion	cop
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 opinion	case
10	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 opinion	det
11	opinion	opinion	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 declared	advcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 charged	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 charged	cc
14	charged	charge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 declared	conj
15	Khacan	Khacan	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 charged	obj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 procure	mark
17	procure	procure	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 charged	xcomp
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 procure	obj
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 slave	det
20	slave	slave	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 procure	obj
21	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 fulfil	nsubj
22	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 fulfil	aux
23	fulfil	fulfil	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 slave	acl:relcl
24	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	26 conditions	det:predet
25	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	26 conditions	det
26	conditions	condition	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 fulfil	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 declared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	not declare speech: other	past	the king	King			vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Attribute
2	is	to-infinitive	the king not said here			of this opinion	tree rules
3	charge	past	the king not said here	Khacan			tree rules
4	procure	to-infinitive	the king not said here	a slave	King		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary slave=Theme
5	fulfil	should	a slave	all conditions			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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