The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 31, sentence 91

The Sultan then turned to Aladdin's mother, saying: "Good woman, a Sultan must remember his promises, and I will remember mine, but your son must first send me forty basins of gold brimful of jewels, carried by forty black slaves, led by as many white ones, splendidly dressed.

Who acts: Sultan, Good woman, son · What happens: turn, say, remember, send, carry, lead · To what, where: promises, Sultan, forty basins, jewels, forty black slaves, many white ones · 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, Good woman, 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	4 turned	nsubj
3	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 turned	advmod
4	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	8 mother	case
6	Aladdin	Aladdin	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 mother	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 Aladdin	case
8	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 turned	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 saying	punct
10	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 turned	advcl
11	:	:	PUNCT	_	14 woman	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 woman	punct
13	Good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 woman	amod
14	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 remember	nsubj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 Sultan	punct
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 Sultan	det
17	Sultan	sultan	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 woman	conj
18	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 remember	aux
19	remember	remember	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 saying	ccomp
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 promises	nmod:poss
21	promises	promise	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 remember	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 remember	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 remember	cc
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 remember	nsubj
25	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 remember	aux
26	remember	remember	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 turned	parataxis
27	mine	my	PRON	Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 remember	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 send	punct
29	but	but	CCONJ	_	34 send	cc
30	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 son	nmod:poss
31	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 send	nsubj
32	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 send	aux
33	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	34 send	advmod
34	send	send	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 remember	conj
35	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 send	iobj
36	forty	forty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	37 basins	nummod
37	basins	basin	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 send	obj
38	of	of	ADP	_	39 gold	case
39	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 basins	nmod
40	brimful	brimful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 basins	amod
41	of	of	ADP	_	42 jewels	case
42	jewels	jewel	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 brimful	obl
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 carried	punct
44	carried	carry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	42 jewels	acl
45	by	by	ADP	_	48 slaves	case
46	forty	forty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	48 slaves	nummod
47	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 slaves	amod
48	slaves	slave	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 carried	obl
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 led	punct
50	led	lead	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	48 slaves	acl
51	by	by	ADP	_	55 ones	case
52	as	as	ADV	_	53 many	advmod
53	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	55 ones	amod
54	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	55 ones	amod
55	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	50 led	obl
56	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 dressed	punct
57	splendidly	splendidly	ADV	_	58 dressed	advmod
58	dressed	dress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	55 ones	acl
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 turned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	turn	past	the Sultan			then	to Aladdin's mother	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	gerund	the Sultan not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	remember in a quote	must	Good woman and a Sultan	Sultan's promises				vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent promise=Theme
4	remember in a quote	future	the Sultan = sultan	the Sultan = sultan				vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent my=Theme
5	send in a quote	must	your son	forty basins of gold	the Sultan = sultan		first property	vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination basin=Theme
6	carry in a quote	participle		jewels not said here			by forty black slaves	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
7	lead in a quote	participle		forty black slaves not said here			by many white ones	vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by one=Destination
8	dress in a quote	participle		many white ones not said here			splendidly property	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
9	promise in a quote		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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