The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 31, sentence 88

When the three months were over, Aladdin sent his mother to remind the Sultan of his promise.

Who acts: three months, Aladdin, Sultan · What happens: be, send, remind, promise · To what, where: mother, Sultan

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 (three months, Aladdin, 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	6 over	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 months	det
3	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 months	nummod
4	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 over	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 over	cop
6	over	over	ADV	_	9 sent	advcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 over	punct
8	Aladdin	Aladdin	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 sent	nsubj
9	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 mother	nmod:poss
11	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sent	obj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 remind	mark
13	remind	remind	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 sent	advcl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Sultan	det
15	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 remind	obj
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 promise	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 promise	nmod:poss
18	promise	promise	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 Sultan	nmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 sent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	the three months			over property	tree rules
2	send	past	Aladdin	Aladdin's mother			vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mother=Theme
3	remind speech: other	to-infinitive	Aladdin not said here		the Sultan of Sultan's promise		vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent sultan=Recipient
4	promise		Sultan				nom promise «communication transitive»: poss=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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