The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 29, sentence 108

Scheih Ibrahim immediately took a lute from a cup-board and gave it to the Persian, who began to play on it, singing the while with such skill and taste that the Caliph was enchanted.

Who acts: Scheih, Persian · What happens: take, give, begin, play, sing, enchant · To what, where: lute, cup board, Persian, Caliph

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Scheih, Persian), 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	Scheih	Scheih	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 took	nsubj
2	Ibrahim	Ibrahim	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Scheih	flat
3	immediately	immediately	ADV	_	4 took	advmod
4	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 lute	det
6	lute	lute	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 took	obj
7	from	from	ADP	_	11 board	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 board	det
9	cup	cup	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 board	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 cup	punct
11	board	board	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 took	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 gave	cc
13	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 took	conj
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 gave	obj
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 Persian	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Persian	det
17	Persian	Persian	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 gave	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 began	punct
19	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 began	nsubj
20	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 Persian	acl:relcl
21	to	to	PART	_	22 play	mark
22	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 began	xcomp
23	on	on	ADP	_	24 it	case
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 play	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 singing	punct
26	singing	sing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 began	advcl
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 while	det
28	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 singing	obj
29	with	with	ADP	_	31 skill	case
30	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 skill	amod
31	skill	skill	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 singing	obl
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 taste	cc
33	taste	taste	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 skill	conj
34	that	that	SCONJ	_	38 enchanted	mark
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 Caliph	det
36	Caliph	Caliph	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 enchanted	nsubj
37	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 enchanted	aux:pass
38	enchanted	enchant	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 skill	acl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	Scheih	a lute		a cup board		immediately property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent lute=Theme from board=Initial_Location
2	give	past	Scheih not said here	lute	the Persian				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to persian=Recipient
3	begin	past	the Persian						vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	play	to-infinitive	the Persian not said here			lute			vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	sing speech: express	gerund	the Persian not said here				while	with such skill and taste	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with skill=Theme
6	enchant	past · passive		the Caliph					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer

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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