The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 36, sentence 96

After some time the officer appeared, and told him that the Caliph had read his petition, and had appointed an hour the next morning to give him audience.

Who acts: officer · What happens: appear, tell, read, appoint, give, petition · To what, where: officer, Caliph, audience · 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 (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	After	after	ADP	_	3 time	case
2	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	3 time	det
3	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 appeared	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 officer	det
5	officer	officer	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 appeared	nsubj
6	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 told	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 told	cc
9	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 appeared	conj
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 told	iobj
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 read	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Caliph	det
13	Caliph	Caliph	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 read	nsubj:pass
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 read	aux
15	read	read	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 told	ccomp
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 petition	nmod:poss
17	petition	petition	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 read	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 appointed	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 appointed	cc
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 appointed	aux
21	appointed	appoint	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 appeared	conj
22	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 hour	det
23	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 appointed	obl:unmarked
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 morning	det
25	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 morning	amod
26	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 appointed	obl:unmarked
27	to	to	PART	_	28 give	mark
28	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 appointed	advcl
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 give	iobj
30	audience	audience	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 give	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 appeared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	appear	past	the officer			time	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	past	the officer not said here		officer		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
3	read	past · perfect · passive		the Caliph			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient petition=Topic
4	appoint	past · perfect	the officer not said here			hour; morning	vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	give	to-infinitive	the officer not said here	audience	officer		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient audience=Theme
6	petition		officer				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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