The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 31, sentence 56

She hesitated, so the Sultan sent away all but the vizir, and bade her speak freely, promising to forgive her beforehand for anything she might say.

Who acts: woman, Sultan · What happens: hesitate, send away, promise, forgive, say · To what, where: bade, vizir, woman · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, Sultan), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 hesitated	nsubj
2	hesitated	hesitate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 sent	punct
4	so	so	ADV	_	7 sent	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Sultan	det
6	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 sent	nsubj
7	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 hesitated	conj
8	away	away	ADV	_	7 sent	advmod
9	all	all	ADV	_	12 vizir	advmod
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 vizir	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 vizir	det
12	vizir	vizir	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sent	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 bade	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 bade	cc
15	bade	bade	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hesitated	obl
16	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 speak	nmod:poss
17	speak	speak	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 freely	nsubj
18	freely	freely	ADV	_	15 bade	acl:relcl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 promising	punct
20	promising	promise	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 hesitated	advcl
21	to	to	PART	_	22 forgive	mark
22	forgive	forgive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 promising	xcomp
23	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 forgive	obj
24	beforehand	beforehand	ADV	_	22 forgive	advmod
25	for	for	ADP	_	26 anything	case
26	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	22 forgive	obl
27	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 say	nsubj
28	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 say	aux
29	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 anything	acl:relcl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 hesitated	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	hesitate	past	woman	bade		vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
2	send away	past	the Sultan	the vizir	away property	vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	promise speech: promise	gerund	woman not said here			vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	forgive not said to happen	to-infinitive	woman not said here	woman	for anything; beforehand property	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent she=Theme for anything=Attribute
5	say speech: assert	might	woman			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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