The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 30, sentence 52

At this the beautiful Persian took courage, and the Caliph was as good as his word, recommending her to the care of his wife Zobeida.

Who acts: Caliph, hand, wife · What happens: take, be, recommend, word, care · To what, where: courage, beautiful Persian, change, care

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, hand, wife), 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	At	at	ADP	_	5 Persian	case
2	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 Persian	nsubj
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Persian	det
4	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 Persian	amod
5	Persian	Persian	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 took	obl
6	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	courage	courage	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 took	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 good	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 good	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Caliph	det
11	Caliph	Caliph	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 good	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 good	cop
13	as	as	ADV	_	14 good	advmod
14	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 took	conj
15	as	as	ADP	_	17 word	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 word	nmod:poss
17	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 good	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 recommending	punct
19	recommending	recommend	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 took	advcl
20	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 recommending	obj
21	to	to	ADP	_	23 care	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 care	det
23	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 recommending	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 wife	case
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 wife	nmod:poss
26	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 care	nmod
27	Zobeida	Zobeida	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 wife	appos
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	take	past		courage		the beautiful Persian		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent courage=Theme at persian=Asset
2	is	past	the Caliph				as hand's word; good property	tree rules
3	recommend	gerund		change	the care of hand's wife			vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Topic to care=Recipient
4	word		hand					nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent
5	care		hand's wife					nom care «act 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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