The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 34, sentence 53

The Caliph, accustomed though he was to instant obedience, guessed something of what was passing in the young man's mind, and sought to put him at his ease. "

Who acts: Caliph, young man · What happens: accustom, be, guess, pass, seek, put · To what, where: Caliph, something, mind, ease

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), 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 guessed	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 accustomed	punct
4	accustomed	accustom	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 Caliph	acl
5	though	though	SCONJ	_	10 obedience	mark
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 obedience	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 obedience	cop
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 obedience	case
9	instant	instant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 obedience	amod
10	obedience	obedience	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 accustomed	advcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Caliph	punct
12	guessed	guess	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	12 guessed	obj
14	of	of	SCONJ	_	17 passing	mark
15	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 passing	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 passing	aux
17	passing	pass	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 something	acl
18	in	in	ADP	_	23 mind	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 man	det
20	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 man	amod
21	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 mind	nmod:poss
22	's	's	PART	_	21 man	case
23	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 passing	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 sought	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 sought	cc
26	sought	seek	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 guessed	conj
27	to	to	PART	_	28 put	mark
28	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 sought	xcomp
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 put	obj
30	at	at	ADP	_	32 ease	case
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 ease	nmod:poss
32	ease	ease	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 put	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 guessed	punct
34	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 guessed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	accustom	participle		the Caliph not said here			tree rules
2	is	past	Caliph			to instant obedience	tree rules
3	guess	past	the Caliph	something			vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Theme
4	pass	past · progressive			the young man's mind		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in mind=Location
5	seek	past	the Caliph not said here				tree rules
6	put not said to happen	to-infinitive	the Caliph not said here	Caliph	Caliph's ease		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme at ease=Destination
7	mind		the young man				nom mind «cognition 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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