The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 32, sentence 115

Now Giafar had something of importance to say to the Caliph, and had no intention of being put off by mere silence, so with another low bow in front of the throne, he began to speak.

Who acts: Giafar, mere silence · What happens: have, say, put off, begin, speak · To what, where: something, Caliph, intention · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Giafar, mere silence), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 had	advmod
2	Giafar	Giafar	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	3 had	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 importance	case
6	importance	importance	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 something	nmod
7	to	to	PART	_	8 say	mark
8	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 something	acl
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 Caliph	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Caliph	det
11	Caliph	Caliph	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 say	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 had	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 had	cc
14	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 had	conj
15	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	16 intention	det
16	intention	intention	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 had	obj
17	of	of	SCONJ	_	19 put	mark
18	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 put	aux:pass
19	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 intention	acl
20	off	off	ADP	_	19 put	compound:prt
21	by	by	ADP	_	23 silence	case
22	mere	mere	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 silence	amod
23	silence	silence	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 put	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 began	punct
25	so	so	ADV	_	37 began	advmod
26	with	with	ADP	_	29 bow	case
27	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	29 bow	det
28	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 bow	amod
29	bow	bow	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 began	obl
30	in	in	ADP	_	31 front	case
31	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 bow	nmod
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 throne	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 throne	det
34	throne	throne	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 front	nmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 bow	punct
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 began	nsubj
37	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 had	conj
38	to	to	PART	_	39 speak	mark
39	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 began	xcomp
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	Giafar	something		now		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Patient
2	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	Giafar not said here	something not said here	the Caliph			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to caliph=Recipient
3	have	past	Giafar not said here	no intention				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent intention=Patient
4	put off	gerund · passive	mere silence	no intention not said here				vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
5	begin	past	Giafar				with another low bow in front of the throne	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	speak speech: other	to-infinitive	Giafar not said here					vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: 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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