The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 36, sentence 112

By his silence the merchant admitted the fact, and the Cadi then commanded to have the vase opened.

Who acts: merchant, Cadi, vase · What happens: admit, command, have, open, silence · To what, where: fact · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (merchant, Cadi, vase), 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	By	by	ADP	_	3 silence	case
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 silence	nmod:poss
3	silence	silence	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 admitted	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 merchant	det
5	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 admitted	nsubj
6	admitted	admit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 fact	det
8	fact	fact	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 admitted	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 commanded	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 commanded	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Cadi	det
12	Cadi	Cadi	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 commanded	nsubj
13	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 commanded	advmod
14	commanded	command	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 admitted	conj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 have	mark
16	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 commanded	xcomp
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 vase	det
18	vase	vase	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 opened	nsubj
19	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 have	ccomp
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 admitted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	admit speech: other	past	the merchant	the fact		by Cadi's silence	vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent fact=Theme by silence=Location
2	command	past	the Cadi		then		vn order-58.3-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	have not said to happen	to-infinitive	the Cadi not said here				tree rules
4	open	past	the vase				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	silence		Cadi				nom silence «state 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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