The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 29, sentence 65

On the return of Scheih Ibrahim they begged him to open it, and to allow them to enter and admire the magnificence within.

Who acts: pieces, Scheih · What happens: beg, open, allow, enter, admire, return · To what, where: Ibrahim, return, pieces, magnificence

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 (pieces, Scheih), 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	On	on	ADP	_	3 return	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 return	det
3	return	return	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 begged	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 Scheih	case
5	Scheih	Scheih	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 return	nmod
6	Ibrahim	Ibrahim	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Scheih	flat
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 begged	nsubj
8	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 begged	obj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 open	mark
11	open	open	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 begged	xcomp
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 open	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 allow	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 allow	cc
15	to	to	PART	_	16 allow	mark
16	allow	allow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 open	conj
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 allow	iobj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 enter	mark
19	enter	enter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 allow	xcomp
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 admire	cc
21	admire	admire	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 open	conj
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 magnificence	det
23	magnificence	magnificence	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 admire	obj
24	within	within	ADP	_	21 admire	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 begged	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	beg speech: request	past	pieces = piece		Ibrahim	the return of Scheih	vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
2	open not said to happen	to-infinitive	pieces = piece not said here	return			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme
3	allow	to-infinitive	pieces = piece not said here		pieces = piece		vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer they=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
4	enter not said to happen	to-infinitive	pieces = piece not said here				vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	admire	infinitive	pieces = piece not said here	the magnificence			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer magnificence=Stimulus
6	return		Scheih				nom return «communication intransitive»: of=agent

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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