The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 33, sentence 19

The next day, after evening prayer, the Caliph entered the hall, and was followed by the vizir bringing with him the two men of whom we have spoken, and a third, with whom we have nothing to do.

Who acts: Caliph, vizir, we · What happens: enter, follow, bring, speak, have, do · To what, where: hall, two men, nothing · 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 (Caliph, vizir, we), 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	3 day	det
2	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 day	amod
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 entered	obl:unmarked
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 prayer	punct
5	after	after	ADP	_	7 prayer	case
6	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 prayer	compound
7	prayer	prayer	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 day	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 day	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Caliph	det
10	Caliph	Caliph	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 entered	nsubj
11	entered	enter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 hall	det
13	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 entered	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 followed	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 followed	cc
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 followed	aux:pass
17	followed	follow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 entered	advcl
18	by	by	ADP	_	20 vizir	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 vizir	det
20	vizir	vizir	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 followed	obl
21	bringing	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	20 vizir	acl
22	with	with	ADP	_	23 him	case
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 bringing	obl
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 men	det
25	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 men	nummod
26	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 bringing	obj
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 whom	case
28	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 men	nmod
29	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 spoken	nsubj
30	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 spoken	aux
31	spoken	speak	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	28 whom	acl:relcl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 third	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 third	cc
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 third	det
35	third	third	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 entered	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 whom	punct
37	with	with	ADP	_	38 whom	case
38	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 entered	advcl
39	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	40 have	nsubj
40	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	38 whom	acl:relcl
41	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	40 have	obj
42	to	to	PART	_	43 do	mark
43	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 nothing	acl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 entered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	enter	past	the Caliph	the hall		day	a third obl	vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme hall=Destination
2	follow	past · passive	the vizir					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	bring	gerund	the vizir not said here		the two men		with vizir	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument man=Destination
4	speak speech: other	present · perfect	we					vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	have	present	we	nothing				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient
6	do	to-infinitive	we not said here	nothing not said here				vn act-114-1 «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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