The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 31, sentence 86

The Sultan told the vizir to ask his son, who owned the truth, adding that, dearly as he loved the princess, he had rather die than go through another such fearful night, and wished to be separated from her.

Who acts: Sultan, son · What happens: tell, ask, own, add, love, die · To what, where: vizir, son, truth, that, princess · 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 (Sultan, son), 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 Sultan	det
2	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 told	nsubj
3	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 vizir	det
5	vizir	vizir	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 told	iobj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 ask	mark
7	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 told	xcomp
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 son	nmod:poss
9	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 ask	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 owned	punct
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 owned	nsubj
12	owned	own	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 son	acl:relcl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 truth	det
14	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 owned	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 adding	punct
16	adding	add	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 ask	advcl
17	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 adding	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 dearly	punct
19	dearly	dearly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 told	parataxis
20	as	as	SCONJ	_	22 loved	mark
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 loved	nsubj
22	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 dearly	advcl
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 princess	det
24	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 loved	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 die	punct
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 die	nsubj
27	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 die	aux
28	rather	rather	ADV	_	29 die	advmod
29	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 told	conj
30	than	than	SCONJ	_	31 go	mark
31	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 die	xcomp
32	through	through	ADP	_	36 night	case
33	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	36 night	det
34	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 night	amod
35	fearful	fearful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 night	amod
36	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 go	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 wished	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 wished	cc
39	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 told	conj
40	to	to	PART	_	42 separated	mark
41	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	42 separated	aux:pass
42	separated	separate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	39 wished	xcomp
43	from	from	ADP	_	44 her	case
44	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 separated	obl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	the Sultan		the vizir			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent vizir=Recipient clause=Topic
2	ask speech: ask not said to happen	to-infinitive	the Sultan not said here		Sultan's son			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent son=Recipient
3	own	past	Sultan's son	the truth				vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot truth=Theme
4	add speech: assert	gerund	the Sultan not said here	that				vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Patient
5	love	past	Sultan	the princess				vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer princess=Stimulus
6	die	past	Sultan					vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
7	go	infinitive	Sultan not said here			night		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	wish	past	the Sultan not said here					vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
9	separate not said to happen	to-infinitive · passive	the Sultan not said here				from child	vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: from she=Co-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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