The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 28, sentence 13

Before bidding adieu to the fair Persian, he said to her: "No happiness can be greater than what I have procured for you; judge for yourself, you now belong to the king.

Who acts: merchant, happiness, Khacan · What happens: bid, say, be, procure, judge, belong · To what, where: adieu, Khacan · Speech: someone speaks here

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, happiness, Khacan), 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	Before	before	SCONJ	_	2 bidding	mark
2	bidding	bid	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 said	advcl
3	adieu	adieu	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bidding	obj
4	to	to	ADP	_	7 Persian	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Persian	det
6	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 Persian	amod
7	Persian	Persian	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 bidding	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 bidding	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 said	nsubj
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 her	case
12	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 said	obl
13	:	:	PUNCT	_	19 greater	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 greater	punct
15	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	16 happiness	det
16	happiness	happiness	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 greater	nsubj
17	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 greater	aux
18	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 greater	cop
19	greater	great	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 said	parataxis
20	than	than	ADP	_	21 what	case
21	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 greater	obl
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 procured	nsubj
23	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 procured	aux
24	procured	procure	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	21 what	acl:relcl
25	for	for	ADP	_	26 you	case
26	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 procured	obl
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 judge	punct
28	judge	judge	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	10 said	parataxis
29	for	for	ADP	_	30 yourself	case
30	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	28 judge	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 belong	punct
32	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	34 belong	nsubj
33	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	34 belong	advmod
34	belong	belong	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 judge	conj
35	to	to	ADP	_	37 king	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 king	det
37	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 belong	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	bid	gerund	merchant not said here	adieu			to the fair Persian	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	merchant		Khacan			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient clause=Topic
3	is in a quote	can	no happiness				great property	tree rules
4	procure in a quote	present · perfect	merchant				for Khacan	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for you=Beneficiary
5	judge in a quote	infinitive					for Khacan	vn captain-29.8 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for yourself=Beneficiary
6	belong in a quote	present	Khacan			now	to the king	vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme

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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