The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 29, sentence 13

Leaving the beautiful Persian shut up in the room alone, he went out to seek the slave merchants, announcing to them that he had found the pearl among slaves, and asking them to come and put a value upon her.

Who acts: lord · What happens: leave, shut up, go out, seek, announce, find · To what, where: beautiful Persian shut room, slave merchants, merchants, pearl, value

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 (lord), 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	Leaving	leave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 went	advcl
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 room	det
3	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 room	amod
4	Persian	persian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 room	amod
5	shut	shut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 room	amod
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 shut	compound:prt
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 room	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 room	det
9	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Leaving	obj
10	alone	alone	ADV	_	1 Leaving	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Leaving	punct
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 went	nsubj
13	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	out	out	ADV	_	13 went	advmod
15	to	to	PART	_	16 seek	mark
16	seek	seek	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 went	xcomp
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 merchants	det
18	slave	slave	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 merchants	compound
19	merchants	merchant	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 seek	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 announcing	punct
21	announcing	announce	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 seek	advcl
22	to	to	ADP	_	23 them	case
23	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 announcing	obl
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 found	mark
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 found	nsubj
26	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 found	aux
27	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	21 announcing	advcl
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 pearl	det
29	pearl	pearl	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 found	obj
30	among	among	ADP	_	31 slaves	case
31	slaves	slave	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 pearl	nmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 asking	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 asking	cc
34	asking	ask	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 announcing	conj
35	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 asking	obj
36	to	to	PART	_	37 come	mark
37	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 asking	xcomp
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 put	cc
39	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 come	conj
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 value	det
41	value	value	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 put	obj
42	upon	upon	ADP	_	43 her	case
43	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 put	obl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	leave	gerund	lord not said here	the beautiful Persian shut room		alone property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent room=Theme
2	shut up	participle					vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	go out	past	lord			out property	tree rules
4	seek	to-infinitive	lord not said here	the slave merchants			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent merchant=Theme
5	announce speech: other	gerund	lord not said here		merchants = merchant		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to they=Recipient
6	find	past · perfect	lord	the pearl		among slaves	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pearl=Topic
7	ask speech: ask	gerund	lord not said here		merchants = merchant		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
8	come not said to happen	to-infinitive	lord not said here				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	put	infinitive	lord not said here	a value		upon Hagi	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent value=Theme upon she=Destination

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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