The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 30, sentence 89

The Caliph also desired Noureddin to reign over Balsora, but this, too, he declined, saying that after what had passed there he preferred never to return, but to enter the service of the Caliph.

Who acts: Caliph, Noureddin · What happens: desire, reign, decline, say, pass, prefer · To what, where: Noureddin, Balsora, service, Caliph · 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 (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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Caliph	det
2	Caliph	Caliph	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 desired	nsubj
3	also	also	ADV	_	4 desired	advmod
4	desired	desire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	Noureddin	Noureddin	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 desired	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 reign	mark
7	reign	reign	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 desired	xcomp
8	over	over	ADP	_	9 Balsora	case
9	Balsora	Balsora	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 reign	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 this	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 this	cc
12	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 desired	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 declined	punct
14	too	too	ADV	_	17 declined	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 declined	punct
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 declined	nsubj
17	declined	decline	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 desired	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 saying	punct
19	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 declined	advcl
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 passed	mark
21	after	after	SCONJ	_	24 passed	mark
22	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	24 passed	nsubj:pass
23	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 passed	aux
24	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 saying	ccomp
25	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	24 passed	advmod
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 preferred	nsubj
27	preferred	prefer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 passed	acl:relcl
28	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	30 return	advmod
29	to	to	PART	_	30 return	mark
30	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 preferred	xcomp
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 enter	punct
32	but	but	CCONJ	_	34 enter	cc
33	to	to	PART	_	34 enter	mark
34	enter	enter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 declined	advcl
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 service	det
36	service	service	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 enter	obj
37	of	of	ADP	_	39 Caliph	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 Caliph	det
39	Caliph	Caliph	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 service	nmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 desired	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	desire	past	the Caliph	Noureddin		this obl	tree rules
2	reign not said to happen	to-infinitive	the Caliph not said here		Balsora		tree rules
3	decline	past	Noureddin				vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	say speech: assert	gerund	Noureddin not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	pass	past · perfect · passive			there		vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: subject=Trajectory
6	prefer	past	Noureddin				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
7	not return not said to happen	to-infinitive	Noureddin not said here				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	enter	to-infinitive	Noureddin not said here	the service of the Caliph			vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme service=Destination
9	service			the Caliph			nom service «act transitive»: of=patient

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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