The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 30, sentence 79

Saouy suspected who they might be, and urged the king to give the signal for the execution without delay, but this the king refused to do till he knew who the horsemen were.

Who acts: Saouy, king, horsemen · What happens: suspect, be, urge, give, refuse, not do · To what, where: king, signal · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Saouy, king, horsemen), 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	Saouy	Saouy	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 suspected	nsubj
2	suspected	suspect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	2 suspected	ccomp
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 be	nsubj
5	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 be	aux
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	3 who	cop
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 urged	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 urged	cc
9	urged	urge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 suspected	conj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 king	det
11	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 urged	obj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 give	mark
13	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 urged	xcomp
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 signal	det
15	signal	signal	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 give	obj
16	for	for	ADP	_	18 execution	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 execution	det
18	execution	execution	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 give	obl
19	without	without	ADP	_	20 delay	case
20	delay	delay	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 give	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 refused	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 refused	cc
23	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	25 king	det
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 king	det
25	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 refused	nsubj
26	refused	refuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 suspected	conj
27	to	to	PART	_	28 do	mark
28	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 refused	xcomp
29	till	till	SCONJ	_	31 knew	mark
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 knew	nsubj
31	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 refused	advcl
32	who	who	PRON	PronType=Int	31 knew	ccomp
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 horsemen	det
34	horsemen	horseman	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 who	nsubj
35	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 who	cop
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 suspected	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	suspect	past	Saouy			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	infinitive	Saouy not said here			tree rules
3	urge	past	Saouy not said here	the king		vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent king=Recipient clause=Topic
4	give not said to happen	to-infinitive	Saouy not said here	the signal	for the execution; without delay	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent signal=Theme for execution=Asset
5	refuse	past	this king			vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
6	not do	to-infinitive	this king not said here			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	know	past	Saouy			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
8	is a	past	the horsemen			tree rules

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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