The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 30, sentence 88

When the Caliph heard what treatment Noureddin had received, he authorised him to behead Saouy with his own hands, but he declined to shed the blood of his enemy, who was forthwith handed over to the executioner.

Who acts: Caliph, Noureddin · What happens: hear, receive, authorise, behead, decline, not shed · To what, where: treatment, Saouy, blood, enemy, executioner

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, Noureddin), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 heard	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Caliph	det
3	Caliph	Caliph	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 heard	nsubj
4	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 authorised	advcl
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 heard	obj
6	treatment	treatment	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 what	nsubj
7	Noureddin	Noureddin	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 received	nsubj
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 received	aux
9	received	receive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 treatment	acl:relcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 heard	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 authorised	nsubj
12	authorised	authorise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 authorised	obj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 behead	mark
15	behead	behead	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 authorised	xcomp
16	Saouy	Saouy	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 behead	obj
17	with	with	ADP	_	20 hands	case
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 hands	nmod:poss
19	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 hands	amod
20	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 behead	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 declined	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 declined	cc
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 declined	nsubj
24	declined	decline	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 authorised	conj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 shed	mark
26	shed	shed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 declined	xcomp
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 blood	det
28	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 shed	obj
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 enemy	case
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 enemy	nmod:poss
31	enemy	enemy	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 blood	nmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 handed	punct
33	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	36 handed	nsubj:pass
34	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 handed	aux:pass
35	forthwith	forthwith	ADV	_	36 handed	advmod
36	handed	hand	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 enemy	acl
37	over	over	ADP	_	36 handed	compound:prt
38	to	to	ADP	_	40 executioner	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 executioner	det
40	executioner	executioner	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 handed	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 authorised	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hear	past	the Caliph				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus
2	receive	past · perfect	Noureddin	treatment not said here			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent treatment=Theme
3	authorise	past	Noureddin	treatment			tree rules
4	behead	to-infinitive	Noureddin not said here	Saouy		with Saouy's own hands	vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent saouy=Patient with hand=Instrument
5	decline	past	Noureddin				vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
6	not shed	to-infinitive	Noureddin not said here	the blood of Saouy's enemy			vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location blood=Source
7	hand over	past · passive		Saouy's enemy	the executioner	forthwith property	vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to executioner=Destination

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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