The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 33, sentence 11

Moved by these words, and perhaps still more by the fact that he had other business to attend to, the Caliph yielded, and struck him lightly on the shoulder.

Who acts: oath, other business, Caliph · What happens: move, have, attend, yield, strike · To what, where: other business, oath

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (oath, other business, Caliph), 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	Moved	move	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	by	by	ADP	_	4 words	case
3	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	4 words	det
4	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Moved	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 more	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 more	cc
7	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	9 more	advmod
8	still	still	ADV	_	9 more	advmod
9	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 words	appos
10	by	by	ADP	_	12 fact	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 fact	det
12	fact	fact	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 yielded	obl
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 had	mark
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 had	nsubj
15	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 fact	acl
16	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 business	amod
17	business	business	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 had	obj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 attend	mark
19	attend	attend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 had	xcomp
20	to	to	ADP	_	19 attend	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 fact	punct
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 Caliph	det
23	Caliph	Caliph	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 yielded	nsubj
24	yielded	yield	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 more	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 struck	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 struck	cc
27	struck	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 yielded	conj
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 struck	obj
29	lightly	lightly	ADV	_	27 struck	advmod
30	on	on	ADP	_	32 shoulder	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 shoulder	det
32	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 struck	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Moved	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	move	participle			by this words	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme by word=Trajectory
2	have	past	oath	other business		tree rules
3	attend	to-infinitive	other business not said here			vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
4	yield	past	the Caliph		by the fact	vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	strike	past	the Caliph not said here	oath	on the shoulder; lightly property	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent he=Instrument on shoulder=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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