The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 36, sentence 93

The next morning he placed himself on the road along which the Caliph must pass after mid-day prayer, and stretched out his petition to the officer who walked before the Caliph, whose duty it was to collect such things, and on entering the palace to hand them to his master.

Who acts: Ali, Caliph, officer · What happens: place, pass, stretch out, walk, be, enter · To what, where: Ali, road, petition, Caliph, palace, duties

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, Caliph, officer), 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	3 morning	det
2	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 morning	amod
3	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 placed	obl:unmarked
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 placed	nsubj
5	placed	place	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	5 placed	obj
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 road	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 road	det
9	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 placed	obl
10	along	along	ADP	_	11 which	case
11	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 pass	obl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Caliph	det
13	Caliph	caliph	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 pass	nsubj
14	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 pass	aux
15	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 road	acl:relcl
16	after	after	ADP	_	18 prayer	case
17	mid-day	mid-day	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 prayer	compound
18	prayer	prayer	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 pass	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 stretched	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 stretched	cc
21	stretched	stretch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 placed	conj
22	out	out	ADP	_	21 stretched	compound:prt
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 petition	nmod:poss
24	petition	petition	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 stretched	obj
25	to	to	ADP	_	27 officer	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 officer	det
27	officer	officer	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 stretched	obl
28	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 walked	nsubj
29	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 officer	acl:relcl
30	before	before	ADP	_	32 Caliph	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 Caliph	det
32	Caliph	Caliph	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 walked	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 duty	punct
34	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	35 duty	nmod:poss
35	duty	duty	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 Caliph	appos
36	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 collect	nsubj
37	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 collect	cop
38	to	to	PART	_	39 collect	mark
39	collect	collect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 duty	acl:relcl
40	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 things	amod
41	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 collect	obj
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 entering	punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 entering	cc
44	on	on	SCONJ	_	45 entering	mark
45	entering	enter	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 placed	advcl
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 palace	det
47	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 entering	obj
48	to	to	PART	_	49 hand	mark
49	hand	hand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	45 entering	ccomp
50	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 hand	obj
51	to	to	ADP	_	53 master	case
52	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	53 master	nmod:poss
53	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 hand	obl
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 placed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	place	past	Ali	Ali	the road	morning		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme on road=Destination
2	pass	must	the Caliph		the road	after mid-day prayer		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme along which=Location
3	stretch out	participle	Ali not said here	Ali's petition			to the officer result	vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent petition=Patient to officer=Result
4	walk	past	the officer		the Caliph			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before caliph=Trajectory
5	is	past	Caliph				collect property	tree rules
6	enter	gerund	Ali not said here	the palace				tree rules
7	hand	to-infinitive	Ali not said here	duties = duty	Ali's master			vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to master=Destination
8	petition		Ali					nom petition «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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