The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 33, sentence 15

So the grand-vizir went back to the bridge; gave the blind beggar first a piece of money and then a blow, delivered the Caliph's message, and rejoined his master.

Who acts: grand vizir · What happens: go back, give, deliver, rejoin · To what, where: blind beggar, message, master

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 (grand vizir), 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	So	so	ADV	_	6 went	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 vizir	det
3	grand	grand	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 vizir	amod
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 grand	punct
5	vizir	vizir	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 went	nsubj
6	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	back	back	ADV	_	6 went	advmod
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 bridge	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 bridge	det
10	bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 went	obl
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 gave	punct
12	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 went	parataxis
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 beggar	det
14	blind	blind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 beggar	amod
15	beggar	beggar	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 gave	obj
16	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	12 gave	advmod
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 piece	det
18	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 gave	obj
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 money	case
20	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 piece	nmod
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 blow	cc
22	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	24 blow	advmod
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 blow	det
24	blow	blow	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 piece	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 delivered	punct
26	delivered	deliver	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 gave	conj
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 Caliph	det
28	Caliph	Caliph	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 message	nmod:poss
29	's	's	PART	_	28 Caliph	case
30	message	message	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 delivered	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 rejoined	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 rejoined	cc
33	rejoined	rejoin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 went	conj
34	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 master	nmod:poss
35	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 rejoined	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	go back	past	the grand vizir		to the bridge result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to bridge=Result
2	give	past		the blind beggar	first property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent beggar=Recipient piece=Theme
3	deliver	past		the Caliph's message		vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent message=Patient
4	rejoin	past	the grand vizir not said here	vizir's master		vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent master=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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