The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 36, sentence 90

Ali Cogia, furious at having to suffer such a loss, protested against the verdict, declaring that he would appeal to the Caliph, Haroun-al-Raschid, himself.

Who acts: Ali · What happens: have, suffer, protest, declare, appeal · To what, where: loss, Ali

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 (Ali), 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	Ali	Ali	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 protested	nsubj
2	Cogia	Cogia	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Ali	flat
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 furious	punct
4	furious	furious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Ali	parataxis
5	at	at	SCONJ	_	6 having	mark
6	having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 furious	advcl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 suffer	mark
8	suffer	suffer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 having	xcomp
9	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	11 loss	det:predet
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 loss	det
11	loss	loss	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 suffer	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Ali	punct
13	protested	protest	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	against	against	ADP	_	16 verdict	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 verdict	det
16	verdict	verdict	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 protested	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 declaring	punct
18	declaring	declare	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 protested	advcl
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 appeal	mark
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 appeal	nsubj
21	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 appeal	aux
22	appeal	appeal	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 declaring	advcl
23	to	to	ADP	_	25 Caliph	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 Caliph	det
25	Caliph	Caliph	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 appeal	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 Haroun	punct
27	Haroun	Haroun	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 Caliph	appos
28	-	-	PUNCT	_	29 al	punct
29	al	Al	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 Haroun	flat
30	-	-	PUNCT	_	31 Raschid	punct
31	Raschid	Raschid	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 Haroun	conj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 himself	punct
33	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	13 protested	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 protested	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	gerund	Ali not said here			tree rules
2	suffer	to-infinitive	Ali not said here	such loss		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer loss=Stimulus
3	protest speech: disagree	past	Ali	Ali	against the verdict	vn rebel-71.2-2 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent against verdict=Topic
4	declare speech: other	gerund	Ali not said here			vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
5	appeal	would	Ali		to the Caliph	vn appeal-31.4-2 «NP V PP.experiencer»: agent=Stimulus to caliph=Experiencer

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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