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The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 30, sentence 40

Now here it must be related that when the Caliph went upstairs with the plate of fish he ordered the vizir to hasten to the palace and bring back four slaves bearing a change of raiment, who should wait outside the pavilion till the Caliph should clap his hands.

Who acts: gold, Caliph, Noureddin, vizir, four slaves, change · What happens: be, go, order, hasten, bring back, bear · To what, where: vizir, palace, four slaves, change, pavilion, hands

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 (gold, Caliph, Noureddin, vizir), 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

advmodadvmodnsubjauxcopmarkadvmoddetnsubjadvcladvmodcasedetoblcasenmodnsubjparataxisdetobjmarkxcompcasedetoblccconjadvmodnummodobjacldetobjcasenmodpunctnsubjauxparataxiscasedetoblmarkdetnsubjauxadvclnmod:possobjpunctrootNowADVhereADVitPRONmustAUXbeAUXrelatedADJthatSCONJwhenADVtheDETCaliphPROPNwentVERBupstairsADVwithADPtheDETplateNOUNofADPfishNOUNhePRONorderedVERBtheDETvizirNOUNtoPARThastenVERBtoADPtheDETpalaceNOUNandCCONJbringVERBbackADVfourNUMslavesNOUNbearingVERBaDETchangeNOUNofADPraimentNOUN,PUNCTwhoPRONshouldAUXwaitVERBoutsideADPtheDETpavilionNOUNtillSCONJtheDETCaliphNOUNshouldAUXclapVERBhisPRONhandsNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1NownowADVPronType=Dem2 hereadvmod
2herehereADVPronType=Dem6 relatedadvmod
3ititPRONCase=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs6 relatednsubj
4mustmustAUXVerbForm=Fin6 relatedaux
5bebeAUXVerbForm=Inf6 relatedcop
6relatedrelatedADJDegree=Posrootroot
7thatthatSCONJ_11 wentmark
8whenwhenADVPronType=Int11 wentadvmod
9thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art10 Caliphdet
10CaliphCaliphPROPNNumber=Sing11 wentnsubj
11wentgoVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin19 orderedadvcl
12upstairsupstairsADV_11 wentadvmod
13withwithADP_15 platecase
14thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art15 platedet
15plateplateNOUNNumber=Sing11 wentobl
16ofofADP_17 fishcase
17fishfishNOUNNumber=Sing15 platenmod
18hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs19 orderednsubj
19orderedorderVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin6 relatedparataxis
20thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art21 vizirdet
21vizirvizirNOUNNumber=Sing19 orderedobj
22totoPART_23 hastenmark
23hastenhastenVERBVerbForm=Inf19 orderedxcomp
24totoADP_26 palacecase
25thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art26 palacedet
26palacepalaceNOUNNumber=Sing23 hastenobl
27andandCCONJ_28 bringcc
28bringbringVERBVerbForm=Inf23 hastenconj
29backbackADV_28 bringadvmod
30fourfourNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card31 slavesnummod
31slavesslaveNOUNNumber=Plur28 bringobj
32bearingbearVERBVerbForm=Ger31 slavesacl
33aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art34 changedet
34changechangeNOUNNumber=Sing32 bearingobj
35ofofADP_36 raimentcase
36raimentraimentNOUNNumber=Sing34 changenmod
37,,PUNCT_40 waitpunct
38whowhoPRONPronType=Rel40 waitnsubj
39shouldshouldAUXVerbForm=Fin40 waitaux
40waitwaitVERBVerbForm=Inf34 changeparataxis
41outsideoutsideADP_43 pavilioncase
42thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art43 paviliondet
43pavilionpavilionNOUNNumber=Sing40 waitobl
44tilltillSCONJ_48 clapmark
45thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art46 Caliphdet
46CaliphcaliphNOUNNumber=Sing48 clapnsubj
47shouldshouldAUXVerbForm=Fin48 clapaux
48clapclapVERBVerbForm=Inf40 waitadvcl
49hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs50 handsnmod:poss
50handshandNOUNNumber=Plur48 clapobj
51..PUNCT_6 relatedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1ismustgoldhererelated propertytree rules
2gopastthe Caliphwith the plate of fish; upstairs propertyvn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with plate=Beneficiary
3orderpastNoureddinthe vizirvn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent vizir=Recipient clause=Topic
4hasten not said to happento-infinitivethe vizir not said herethe palacevn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to palace=Destination
5bring backinfinitivethe vizir not said herefour slavesvn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent slave=Theme
6beargerundfour slaves not said herea change of raimentvn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent change=Patient
7waitshoulda change of raimentthe pavilionvn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme outside pavilion=Location
8clapshouldthe CaliphNoureddin's handsvn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hand=Theme
9changeraimentnom change «event 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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