The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 29, sentence 97

"Commander of the Faithful," he said, "I must tell you that four or five days ago Scheih Ibrahim told me that he wished to have an assembly of the ministers of his mosque, and asked permission to hold it in the pavilion.

Who acts: Commander, Scheih, permission · What happens: say, tell, wish, have, ask, hold · To what, where: you, Commander, assembly, permission, pavilion · 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 (Commander, Scheih, permission), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Commander	punct
2	Commander	Commander	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 Faithful	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Faithful	det
5	Faithful	faithful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Commander	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Commander	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Commander	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 said	nsubj
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 tell	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 tell	punct
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 tell	nsubj
13	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 tell	aux
14	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	ccomp
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 tell	iobj
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 told	mark
17	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 days	nummod
18	or	or	CCONJ	_	19 five	cc
19	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 four	conj
20	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 ago	obl:unmarked
21	ago	ago	ADV	_	22 Scheih	advmod
22	Scheih	Scheih	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 told	nsubj
23	Ibrahim	Ibrahim	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 Scheih	flat
24	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 tell	advcl
25	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 told	iobj
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 wished	mark
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 wished	nsubj
28	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 told	ccomp
29	to	to	PART	_	30 have	mark
30	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 wished	xcomp
31	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 assembly	det
32	assembly	assembly	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 have	obj
33	of	of	ADP	_	35 ministers	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 ministers	det
35	ministers	minister	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 assembly	nmod
36	of	of	ADP	_	38 mosque	case
37	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 mosque	nmod:poss
38	mosque	mosque	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 ministers	nmod
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 asked	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 asked	cc
41	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 said	conj
42	permission	permission	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 asked	obj
43	to	to	PART	_	44 hold	mark
44	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 asked	xcomp
45	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 hold	obj
46	in	in	ADP	_	48 pavilion	case
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 pavilion	det
48	pavilion	pavilion	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 hold	obl
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Commander of the Faithful				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	tell speech: assert in a quote	must	Commander of the Faithful = commander		you		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
3	tell speech: assert in a quote	past	Scheih		Commander of the Faithful = commander		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic
4	wish in a quote	past	Scheih				vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5	have not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	Scheih not said here	a assembly of the ministers of Scheih's mosque			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent assembly=Patient
6	ask speech: ask in a quote	past	Commander of the Faithful not said here	permission			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent permission=Recipient clause=Topic
7	hold not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	permission not said here	permission		the pavilion	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme in pavilion=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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