The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 28, sentence 74

On Noureddin's return Khacan pretended to be about to slay him, but yielding to his wife's intercession, said to his son:

Who acts: Khacan, Noureddin, wife · What happens: pretend, be, slay, yield, say, return · To what, where: return, vizir, son · 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 (Khacan, Noureddin, wife), 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	On	on	ADP	_	4 return	case
2	Noureddin	Noureddin	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 return	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 Noureddin	case
4	return	return	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pretended	obl
5	Khacan	Khacan	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 pretended	nsubj
6	pretended	pretend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	9 about	mark
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 about	cop
9	about	about	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 pretended	xcomp
10	to	to	PART	_	11 slay	mark
11	slay	slay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 about	xcomp
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 slay	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 yielding	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 yielding	cc
15	yielding	yield	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 pretended	advcl
16	to	to	ADP	_	20 intercession	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 wife	nmod:poss
18	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 intercession	nmod:poss
19	's	's	PART	_	18 wife	case
20	intercession	intercession	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 yielding	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 said	punct
22	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 pretended	conj
23	to	to	ADP	_	25 son	case
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 son	nmod:poss
25	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 said	obl
26	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 pretended	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	pretend	past	Khacan			Noureddin's return		tree rules
2	is	to-infinitive	Khacan not said here				about property	tree rules
3	slay	to-infinitive	Khacan not said here	vizir				vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
4	yield	gerund	Khacan not said here				to vizir's wife's intercession	vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to intercession=Theme
5	say speech: assert	past	Khacan not said here		vizir's son			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to son=Recipient
6	return		Noureddin					nom return «communication intransitive»: poss=agent
7	intercede		vizir's wife					nom intercession «communication intransitive»: 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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