The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 28, sentence 12

He gave the beautiful Persian an apartment near to that of his wife, whom he charged to treat her as befitting a lady destined for the king, and to order for her the most magnificent garments.

Who acts: merchant · What happens: give, charge, treat, befit, destine, order · To what, where: beautiful Persian, wife, Khacan, lady, magnificent garments

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (merchant), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 gave	nsubj
2	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Persian	det
4	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 Persian	amod
5	Persian	Persian	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 gave	obj
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 apartment	det
7	apartment	apartment	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gave	obj
8	near	near	ADV	_	10 that	advmod
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 that	case
10	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 gave	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 wife	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 wife	nmod:poss
13	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 that	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 charged	punct
15	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 charged	obj
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 charged	nsubj
17	charged	charge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 wife	acl:relcl
18	to	to	PART	_	19 treat	mark
19	treat	treat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 charged	xcomp
20	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 treat	obj
21	as	as	SCONJ	_	22 befitting	mark
22	befitting	befit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 treat	advcl
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 lady	det
24	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 befitting	obj
25	destined	destine	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 lady	acl
26	for	for	ADP	_	28 king	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 king	det
28	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 destined	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 order	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 order	cc
31	to	to	PART	_	32 order	mark
32	order	order	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 gave	advcl
33	for	for	ADP	_	34 her	case
34	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 order	obl
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 garments	det
36	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	37 magnificent	advmod
37	magnificent	magnificent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 garments	amod
38	garments	garment	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 order	obj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	give	past	merchant	the beautiful Persian			tree rules
2	charge	past	merchant	merchant's wife			tree rules
3	treat	to-infinitive	merchant not said here		Khacan		vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
4	befit	gerund	merchant not said here	a lady			tree rules
5	destine	participle		a lady not said here		for the king	tree rules
6	order	to-infinitive	merchant not said here	the magnificent garments		for Khacan	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent garment=Theme for she=Beneficiary

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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