The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 33, sentence 22

"Baba-Abdalla," returned the Caliph, "your way of asking alms yesterday seemed to me so strange, that I almost commanded you then and there to cease from causing such a public scandal.

Who acts: Baba, way, Caliph · What happens: return, ask, seem, command, cease, cause · To what, where: alms, Baba, you, public scandal · 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 (Baba, way, 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Baba	punct
2	Baba	Baba	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 returned	nsubj
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 Abdalla	punct
4	Abdalla	Abdalla	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Baba	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Baba	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 returned	punct
7	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Caliph	det
9	Caliph	Caliph	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 seemed	nsubj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 way	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 way	punct
12	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 way	nmod:poss
13	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 Caliph	appos
14	of	of	SCONJ	_	15 asking	mark
15	asking	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 way	acl
16	alms	alm	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 asking	obj
17	yesterday	yesterday	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 asking	obl:unmarked
18	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 returned	ccomp
19	to	to	ADP	_	20 me	case
20	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 seemed	obl
21	so	so	ADV	_	22 strange	advmod
22	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 seemed	xcomp
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 commanded	punct
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 commanded	mark
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 commanded	nsubj
26	almost	almost	ADV	_	27 commanded	advmod
27	commanded	command	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 seemed	conj
28	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 commanded	obj
29	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	27 commanded	advmod
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 there	cc
31	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	29 then	conj
32	to	to	PART	_	33 cease	mark
33	cease	cease	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 commanded	advcl
34	from	from	SCONJ	_	35 causing	mark
35	causing	cause	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	33 cease	advcl
36	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	39 scandal	det:predet
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 scandal	det
38	public	public	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 scandal	amod
39	scandal	scandal	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 causing	obj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 returned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	return	past	Baba and Abdalla					tree rules
2	ask speech: ask in a quote	gerund	your way not said here	alms		yesterday		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent alm=Recipient
3	seem in a quote	past	the Caliph		Baba and Abdalla = baba		strange property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
4	command in a quote	past	Baba and Abdalla = baba	you		then	almost property	vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent you=Theme
5	cease in a quote	to-infinitive	Baba and Abdalla = baba not said here					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
6	cause in a quote	gerund	Baba and Abdalla = baba not said here	such public scandal				vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition scandal=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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