The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 28, sentence 23

Some time having elapsed, on account of the long journey, since the beautiful Persian had been to the bath, five or six days after her purchase the vizir's wife gave orders that the bath should be heated for her, and that her own female slaves should attend her there, and after-wards should array her in a magnificent dress that had been prepared for her.

Who acts: beautiful Persian, five days, own female slaves, Noureddin · What happens: elapse, be, give, heat, attend, array · To what, where: time, account, orders, bath, Noureddin, magnificent dress

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 (beautiful Persian, five days, own female slaves, Noureddin), 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	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 time	det
2	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 elapsed	nsubj:pass
3	having	have	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 elapsed	aux
4	elapsed	elapse	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 account	punct
6	on	on	ADP	_	7 account	case
7	account	account	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 elapsed	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	11 journey	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 journey	det
10	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 journey	amod
11	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 account	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 bath	punct
13	since	since	SCONJ	_	21 bath	mark
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Persian	det
15	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 Persian	amod
16	Persian	Persian	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 bath	nsubj
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 bath	aux
18	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	21 bath	cop
19	to	to	ADP	_	21 bath	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 bath	det
21	bath	bath	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 gave	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 days	punct
23	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 days	nummod
24	or	or	CCONJ	_	25 six	cc
25	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 five	conj
26	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 gave	nsubj
27	after	after	ADP	_	29 purchase	case
28	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 purchase	nmod:poss
29	purchase	purchase	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 days	nmod
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 vizir	det
31	vizir	vizir	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 wife	nmod:poss
32	's	's	PART	_	31 vizir	case
33	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 purchase	nmod
34	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 elapsed	parataxis
35	orders	order	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 gave	obj
36	that	that	SCONJ	_	41 heated	mark
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 bath	det
38	bath	bath	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 heated	nsubj:pass
39	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	41 heated	aux
40	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	41 heated	aux:pass
41	heated	heat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	34 gave	advcl
42	for	for	ADP	_	43 her	case
43	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 heated	obl
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 attend	punct
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 attend	cc
46	that	that	SCONJ	_	52 attend	mark
47	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	50 slaves	nmod:poss
48	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 slaves	amod
49	female	female	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 slaves	compound
50	slaves	slave	NOUN	Number=Plur	52 attend	nsubj
51	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	52 attend	aux
52	attend	attend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 gave	conj
53	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 attend	obj
54	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	52 attend	advmod
55	,	,	PUNCT	_	61 array	punct
56	and	and	CCONJ	_	61 array	cc
57	after	after	ADP	_	59 wards	case
58	-	-	PUNCT	_	57 after	punct
59	wards	ward	NOUN	Number=Plur	61 array	obl
60	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	61 array	aux
61	array	array	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 elapsed	conj
62	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	61 array	obj
63	in	in	ADP	_	66 dress	case
64	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	66 dress	det
65	magnificent	magnificent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	66 dress	amod
66	dress	dress	NOUN	Number=Sing	61 array	obl
67	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	70 prepared	nsubj:pass
68	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	70 prepared	aux
69	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	70 prepared	aux:pass
70	prepared	prepare	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	66 dress	acl:relcl
71	for	for	ADP	_	72 her	case
72	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	70 prepared	obl
73	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 elapsed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	elapse	gerund · perfect · passive		some time		account of the long journey			tree rules
2	is	past · perfect	the beautiful Persian					to the bath	tree rules
3	give	past	five days after Noureddin's purchase the vizir's wife	orders					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=Theme
4	heat	should · passive		the bath				for Noureddin	vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient
5	attend	should	Noureddin's own female slaves		Noureddin	there			vn attend-107.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme she=Goal
6	array	should		Noureddin		a magnificent dress	after wards		tree rules
7	prepare	past · perfect · passive		a magnificent dress				for Noureddin	vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Product for she=Beneficiary
8	account			the long journey					nom account «communication transitive»: of=patient
9	purchase		Noureddin						nom purchase «act transitive»: poss=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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