The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 28, sentence 78

Khacan was at great pains frequently to speak to the king of the difficulties attending the commission he had given him, but some whispers of what had actually taken place did reach Saouy's ears.

Who acts: Khacan, difficulties, commission, whispers · What happens: be, attend, give, take, reach · To what, where: commission, king, father, place, ears

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, difficulties, commission, whispers), 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	Khacan	Khacan	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 speak	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 speak	cop
3	at	at	ADP	_	5 pains	case
4	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 pains	amod
5	pains	pain	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 was	obl
6	frequently	frequently	ADV	_	8 speak	advmod
7	to	to	PART	_	8 speak	mark
8	speak	speak	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 king	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 king	det
11	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 speak	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 difficulties	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 difficulties	det
14	difficulties	difficulty	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 king	nmod
15	attending	attend	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 difficulties	acl
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 commission	det
17	commission	commission	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 attending	obj
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 given	nsubj:pass
19	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 given	aux
20	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 commission	acl
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 given	iobj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 reach	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	33 reach	cc
24	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	25 whispers	det
25	whispers	whisper	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 reach	nsubj
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 what	case
27	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 whispers	nmod
28	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 taken	aux
29	actually	actually	ADV	_	30 taken	advmod
30	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	27 what	acl:relcl
31	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 taken	obj
32	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 reach	aux
33	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 speak	conj
34	Saouy	Saouy	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 ears	nmod:poss
35	's	's	PART	_	34 Saouy	case
36	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 reach	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 speak	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	Khacan			to the king of the difficulties; frequently, speak property	tree rules
2	attend	gerund	the difficulties not said here	the commission			vn attend-107.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme commission=Goal
3	give	past · perfect · passive	the commission not said here	king	father		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient he=Theme
4	take	past · perfect		place		actually property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme
5	reach	past · do-support	some whispers	Saouy's ears			vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent ear=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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