The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 34, sentence 43

The Caliph, Haroun-al-Raschid, was much pleased with the tale of the blind man and the dervish, and when it was finished he turned to the young man who had ill-treated his horse, and inquired his name also.

Who acts: Caliph, young man, blind man · What happens: be, finish, turn, have, treat, inquire · To what, where: tale, horse, name · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Caliph, young man, blind man), 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	2 Caliph	det
2	Caliph	Caliph	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 pleased	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 Haroun	punct
4	Haroun	Haroun	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Caliph	conj
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 al	punct
6	al	Al	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Haroun	appos
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 Raschid	punct
8	Raschid	Raschid	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 al	flat
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Caliph	punct
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 pleased	cop
11	much	much	ADV	_	12 pleased	advmod
12	pleased	pleased	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
13	with	with	ADP	_	15 tale	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 tale	det
15	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 pleased	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	19 man	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 man	det
18	blind	blind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 man	amod
19	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 tale	nmod
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 dervish	cc
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 dervish	det
22	dervish	dervish	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 man	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 finished	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 finished	cc
25	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	28 finished	advmod
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 finished	nsubj:pass
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 finished	aux:pass
28	finished	finish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 pleased	conj
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 turned	nsubj
30	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 finished	ccomp
31	to	to	ADP	_	34 man	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 man	det
33	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 man	amod
34	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 turned	obl
35	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	36 had	nsubj
36	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 man	acl:relcl
37	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 treated	compound
38	-	-	PUNCT	_	37 ill	punct
39	treated	treat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	36 had	xcomp
40	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 horse	nmod:poss
41	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 treated	obj
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 inquired	punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 inquired	cc
44	inquired	inquire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 turned	conj
45	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	46 name	nmod:poss
46	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 inquired	obj
47	also	also	ADV	_	44 inquired	advmod
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 pleased	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	the Caliph and Haroun			with the tale of the blind man and the dervish; pleased property	tree rules
2	finish	past · passive		tale			tree rules
3	turn	past	Caliph			to the young man result	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to man=Result
4	have	past	the young man				tree rules
5	treat	participle	the young man not said here		Caliph's horse		vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent horse=Recipient
6	inquire speech: other	past	Caliph not said here	Caliph's name			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent name=Recipient
7	tell		the blind man and the dervish				nom tale «communication intransitive»: of=agent
8	name		Caliph				nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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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