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The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 29, sentence 39

He ordered the captain of the guard to take with him forty men, to pillage Noureddin's house, to rase it to the ground, and to bring Noureddin and the slave to him.

Who acts: wrath, captain · What happens: order, take, rase, bring · To what, where: captain, forty men, Noureddin, wrath

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 (wrath, captain), 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

nsubjdetobjcasedetnmodmarkxcompcaseoblnummodobjpunctmarkcompoundnmod:posscaseoblpunctmarkconjobjcasedetoblpunctccmarkconjobjccdetconjcaseoblpunctrootHePRONorderedVERBtheDETcaptainNOUNofADPtheDETguardNOUNtoPARTtakeVERBwithADPhimPRONfortyNUMmenNOUN,PUNCTtoPARTpillageNOUNNoureddinPROPN'sPARThouseNOUN,PUNCTtoPARTraseVERBitPRONtoADPtheDETgroundNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJtoPARTbringVERBNoureddinPROPNandCCONJtheDETslaveNOUNtoADPhimPRON.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1HehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs2 orderednsubj
2orderedorderVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
3thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art4 captaindet
4captaincaptainNOUNNumber=Sing2 orderedobj
5ofofADP_7 guardcase
6thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art7 guarddet
7guardguardNOUNNumber=Sing4 captainnmod
8totoPART_9 takemark
9taketakeVERBVerbForm=Inf2 orderedxcomp
10withwithADP_11 himcase
11himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs9 takeobl
12fortyfortyNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card13 mennummod
13menmanNOUNNumber=Plur9 takeobj
14,,PUNCT_19 housepunct
15totoPART_19 housemark
16pillagepillageNOUNNumber=Sing19 housecompound
17NoureddinNoureddinPROPNNumber=Sing19 housenmod:poss
18's'sPART_17 Noureddincase
19househouseNOUNNumber=Sing9 takeobl
20,,PUNCT_22 rasepunct
21totoPART_22 rasemark
22raseraseVERBVerbForm=Inf9 takeconj
23ititPRONCase=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs22 raseobj
24totoADP_26 groundcase
25thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art26 grounddet
26groundgroundNOUNNumber=Sing22 raseobl
27,,PUNCT_30 bringpunct
28andandCCONJ_30 bringcc
29totoPART_30 bringmark
30bringbringVERBVerbForm=Inf2 orderedconj
31NoureddinNoureddinPROPNNumber=Sing30 bringobj
32andandCCONJ_34 slavecc
33thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art34 slavedet
34slaveslaveNOUNNumber=Sing31 Noureddinconj
35totoADP_36 himcase
36himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs30 bringobl
37..PUNCT_2 orderedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1orderpastwraththe captain of the guardvn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent captain=Recipient clause=Topic
2take not said to happento-infinitivethe captain of the guard not said hereforty menwith wrath; Noureddin's pillage house oblvn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument man=Destination
3raseto-infinitivethe captain of the guard not said herecaptainto the groundtree rules
4bringto-infinitivewrath not said hereNoureddin and the slavewrathvn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent noureddin=Theme to he=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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