The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 29, sentence 46

When the king heard that they had escaped, he issued a proclamation that a reward of 1,000 gold pieces would be given to whoever would bring him Noureddin and the slave, but that, on the contrary, whoever hid them would be severely punished.

Who acts: king, neighbours, whoever · What happens: hear, escape, issue, give, bring, hide · To what, where: proclamation, reward, Noureddin, king, neighbours, 1,000 gold pieces · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (king, neighbours, whoever), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 heard	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 king	det
3	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 heard	nsubj
4	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 issued	advcl
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 escaped	mark
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 escaped	nsubj
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 escaped	aux
8	escaped	escape	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 heard	ccomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 heard	punct
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 issued	nsubj
11	issued	issue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 proclamation	det
13	proclamation	proclamation	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 issued	obj
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 given	mark
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 reward	det
16	reward	reward	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 given	nsubj:pass
17	of	of	ADP	_	20 pieces	case
18	1,000	1000	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	20 pieces	nummod
19	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 pieces	compound
20	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 reward	nmod
21	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 given	aux
22	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 given	aux:pass
23	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 issued	advcl
24	to	to	SCONJ	_	27 bring	mark
25	whoever	whoever	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 bring	nsubj
26	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 bring	aux
27	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 given	advcl
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 bring	obj
29	Noureddin	Noureddin	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 bring	obj
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 slave	cc
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 slave	det
32	slave	slave	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 Noureddin	conj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 contrary	punct
34	but	but	CCONJ	_	39 contrary	cc
35	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	39 contrary	nsubj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 contrary	punct
37	on	on	ADP	_	39 contrary	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 contrary	det
39	contrary	contrary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 punished	advcl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 hid	punct
41	whoever	whoever	PRON	PronType=Rel	42 hid	nsubj
42	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 contrary	conj
43	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 hid	obj
44	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	47 punished	aux
45	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	47 punished	aux:pass
46	severely	severely	ADV	_	47 punished	advmod
47	punished	punish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 issued	parataxis
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 issued	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	hear	past	the king				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	escape	past · perfect	neighbours = neighbour				vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	issue	past	king	a proclamation			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location proclamation=Theme
4	give	would · passive		a reward of 1,000 gold pieces			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
5	bring	would	whoever	Noureddin and the slave	king		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination noureddin=Theme
6	hide	past	whoever	neighbours = neighbour			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
7	punish	would · passive				severely property	vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»
8	reward			1,000 gold pieces			nom reward «event transitive»: of=patient

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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