The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 33, sentence 18

Still wondering, he passed on, and for the moment had to content himself with telling the vizir to command the horseman also to appear before him at the same time as the blind man.

Who acts: thing, vizir · What happens: wonder, pass on, have, content, tell, command · To what, where: thing, vizir, horseman · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (thing, 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	Still	still	ADV	_	2 wondering	advmod
2	wondering	wonder	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 passed	advcl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 wondering	punct
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 passed	nsubj
5	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	on	on	ADP	_	5 passed	compound:prt
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 had	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 had	cc
9	for	for	ADP	_	11 moment	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 moment	det
11	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 had	obl
12	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 passed	conj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 content	mark
14	content	content	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 had	xcomp
15	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	14 content	obj
16	with	with	SCONJ	_	17 telling	mark
17	telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 content	advcl
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 vizir	det
19	vizir	vizir	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 telling	obj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 command	mark
21	command	command	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 telling	xcomp
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 horseman	det
23	horseman	horseman	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 command	obj
24	also	also	ADV	_	26 appear	advmod
25	to	to	PART	_	26 appear	mark
26	appear	appear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 command	conj
27	before	before	ADP	_	28 him	case
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 appear	obl
29	at	at	ADP	_	32 time	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 time	det
31	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 time	amod
32	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 appear	obl
33	as	as	ADP	_	36 man	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 man	det
35	blind	blind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 man	amod
36	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 time	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 passed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	wonder speech: ask	gerund	thing not said here		still	vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	pass on	past	thing			vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	have	past	thing not said here		moment	tree rules
4	content	to-infinitive	thing not said here	thing		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus himself=Experiencer
5	tell speech: assert	gerund	thing not said here	the vizir		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent vizir=Recipient clause=Topic
6	command not said to happen	to-infinitive	the vizir not said here	the horseman		vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent horseman=Eventuality
7	appear	to-infinitive	the vizir not said here		before thing; time	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before he=Location

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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