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The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 30, sentence 17

The Caliph then returned to the vizir, and they set to work in Scheih Ibrahim's house to cook the fish, of which they made so tempting a dish that Noureddin and the fair Persian ate of it with great relish.

Who acts: Caliph, fish, Noureddin · What happens: return, set, work, cook, make, eat · To what, where: fish, tempting dish

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Caliph, fish, Noureddin), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg128:2464): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

detnsubjadvmodcasedetoblpunctccnsubjconjmarkxcompcasenmod:possflatcaseoblmarkadvcldetobjpunctcaseoblnsubjacl:relcladvmodamoddetobjmarknsubjccdetamodconjadvclcaseoblcaseamodoblpunctrootTheDETCaliphNOUNthenADVreturnedVERBtoADPtheDETvizirNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJtheyPRONsetVERBtoPARTworkVERBinADPScheihPROPNIbrahimPROPN'sPARThouseNOUNtoPARTcookVERBtheDETfishNOUN,PUNCTofADPwhichPRONtheyPRONmadeVERBsoADVtemptingADJaDETdishNOUNthatSCONJNoureddinPROPNandCCONJtheDETfairADJPersianPROPNateVERBofADPitPRONwithADPgreatADJrelishNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art2 Caliphdet
2CaliphcaliphNOUNNumber=Sing4 returnednsubj
3thenthenADVPronType=Dem4 returnedadvmod
4returnedreturnVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
5totoADP_7 vizircase
6thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art7 vizirdet
7vizirvizirNOUNNumber=Sing4 returnedobl
8,,PUNCT_11 setpunct
9andandCCONJ_11 setcc
10theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs11 setnsubj
11setsetVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin4 returnedconj
12totoPART_13 workmark
13workworkVERBVerbForm=Inf11 setxcomp
14ininADP_18 housecase
15ScheihScheihPROPNNumber=Sing18 housenmod:poss
16IbrahimIbrahimPROPNNumber=Sing15 Scheihflat
17's'sPART_15 Scheihcase
18househouseNOUNNumber=Sing13 workobl
19totoPART_20 cookmark
20cookcookVERBVerbForm=Inf13 workadvcl
21thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art22 fishdet
22fishfishNOUNNumber=Plur20 cookobj
23,,PUNCT_27 madepunct
24ofofADP_25 whichcase
25whichwhichPRONPronType=Rel27 madeobl
26theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs27 madensubj
27mademakeVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin22 fishacl:relcl
28sosoADV_29 temptingadvmod
29temptingtemptingADJDegree=Pos31 dishamod
30aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art31 dishdet
31dishdishNOUNNumber=Sing27 madeobj
32thatthatSCONJ_38 atemark
33NoureddinNoureddinPROPNNumber=Sing38 atensubj
34andandCCONJ_37 Persiancc
35thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art37 Persiandet
36fairfairADJDegree=Pos37 Persianamod
37PersianPersianPROPNNumber=Sing33 Noureddinconj
38ateeatVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin27 madeadvcl
39ofofADP_40 itcase
40ititPRONCase=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs38 ateobl
41withwithADP_43 relishcase
42greatgreatADJDegree=Pos43 relishamod
43relishrelishNOUNNumber=Sing38 ateobl
44..PUNCT_4 returnedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1returnpastthe Caliphthento the vizir resultvn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to vizir=Result
2setpastfishtree rules
3workto-infinitivefish not said herein Scheih's housevn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in house=Theme
4cookto-infinitivefish not said herethe fishvn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent fish=Patient
5makepastfisha tempting dishof the fishvn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset dish=Product
6eatpastNoureddin and the fair Persianof Persian; with great relishvn eat-39.1-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent of it=Source

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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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