The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 29, sentence 55

Only the door-keeper lived there, an old soldier named Scheih Ibrahim, who had strict orders to be very careful whom he admitted, and never to allow any one to sit on the sofas by the door.

Who acts: door keeper, Scheih, keeper, one · What happens: live, name, have, be, admit, not allow · To what, where: old soldier, strict orders, one, sofas

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 (door keeper, Scheih, keeper, one), 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	Only	only	ADV	_	6 lived	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 keeper	det
3	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 keeper	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 door	punct
5	keeper	keeper	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lived	nsubj
6	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 lived	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 soldier	punct
9	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 soldier	det
10	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 soldier	amod
11	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lived	obl
12	named	name	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 soldier	acl
13	Scheih	Scheih	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 named	xcomp
14	Ibrahim	Ibrahim	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Scheih	flat
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 had	punct
16	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 had	nsubj
17	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 Scheih	acl:relcl
18	strict	strict	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 orders	amod
19	orders	order	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 had	obj
20	to	to	PART	_	23 careful	mark
21	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 careful	cop
22	very	very	ADV	_	23 careful	advmod
23	careful	careful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 orders	acl
24	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 careful	obj
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 admitted	nsubj
26	admitted	admit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 whom	acl:relcl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 allow	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 allow	cc
29	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	31 allow	advmod
30	to	to	PART	_	31 allow	mark
31	allow	allow	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 lived	parataxis
32	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	33 one	det
33	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 allow	obj
34	to	to	PART	_	35 sit	mark
35	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 allow	xcomp
36	on	on	ADP	_	38 sofas	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 sofas	det
38	sofas	sofa	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 sit	obl
39	by	by	ADP	_	41 door	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 door	det
41	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 sit	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	live	past	the door keeper	a old soldier	there		vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	name	participle		a old soldier not said here			vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	have	past	Scheih	strict orders			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=Patient
4	is	to-infinitive	Scheih not said here	strict orders not said here		careful property	tree rules
5	admit speech: other	past	keeper				vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
6	not allow	to-infinitive		any one			vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer one=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
7	sit not said to happen	to-infinitive	any one not said here		the sofas	by the door	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on sofa=Location

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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