The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 30, sentence 56

He would instantly have executed the Caliph's order, but first he showed the letter to Saouy, whose interests were equally at stake with his own.

Who acts: king, interests, Caliph, stake · What happens: execute, show, be, order, interest · To what, where: order, letter, Saouy, stake

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 (king, interests, Caliph, stake), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 executed	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 executed	aux
3	instantly	instantly	ADV	_	5 executed	advmod
4	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 executed	aux
5	executed	execute	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Caliph	det
7	Caliph	Caliph	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 order	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 Caliph	case
9	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 executed	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 showed	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 showed	cc
12	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	14 showed	advmod
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 showed	nsubj
14	showed	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 executed	conj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 letter	det
16	letter	letter	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 showed	obj
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 Saouy	case
18	Saouy	Saouy	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 letter	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 stake	punct
20	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	21 interests	nmod:poss
21	interests	interest	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 stake	nsubj
22	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 stake	cop
23	equally	equally	ADV	_	25 stake	advmod
24	at	at	ADP	_	25 stake	case
25	stake	stake	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 letter	appos
26	with	with	ADP	_	28 own	case
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 own	nmod:poss
28	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 stake	nmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 executed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	execute	would · perfect	king	the Caliph's order			instantly property	vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=Patient
2	show	past	king	the letter	Saouy		first property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent letter=Topic to saouy=Recipient
3	is	past	stake's interests			stake	with king's own; equally property	tree rules
4	order		the Caliph					nom order «communication transitive»: poss=agent
5	interest		stake					nom interest «cognition transitive»: poss=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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