The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 36, sentence 98

That very evening, the Caliph, with his grand-vizir Giafar, and Mesrour, chief of the eunuchs, all three disguised, as was their habit, went out to take a stroll through the town.

Who acts: Caliph · What happens: disguise, be, go out, take · To what, where: stroll, town

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 (Caliph), 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	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 evening	det
2	very	very	ADV	_	3 evening	advmod
3	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 disguised	obl:unmarked
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 evening	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Caliph	det
6	Caliph	Caliph	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 disguised	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 vizir	punct
8	with	with	ADP	_	12 vizir	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 vizir	nmod:poss
10	grand	grand	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 vizir	amod
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 grand	punct
12	vizir	vizir	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 Caliph	appos
13	Giafar	Giafar	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 vizir	appos
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 Mesrour	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 Mesrour	cc
16	Mesrour	Mesrour	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Caliph	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 chief	punct
18	chief	chief	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 Mesrour	appos
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 eunuchs	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 eunuchs	det
21	eunuchs	eunuch	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 chief	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 three	punct
23	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	24 three	det
24	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 Mesrour	list
25	disguised	disguise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 habit	punct
27	as	as	ADP	_	30 habit	case
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 habit	cop
29	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 habit	nmod:poss
30	habit	habit	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 disguised	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 went	punct
32	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 disguised	conj
33	out	out	ADV	_	32 went	advmod
34	to	to	PART	_	35 take	mark
35	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 went	advcl
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 stroll	det
37	stroll	stroll	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 take	obj
38	through	through	ADP	_	40 town	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 town	det
40	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 take	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	25 disguised	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	disguise	past	the Caliph and Mesrour			evening		vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent
2	is	past					as eunuchs's habit	tree rules
3	go out	past	the Caliph and Mesrour not said here				out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	take	to-infinitive	the Caliph and Mesrour not said here	a stroll	the town			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stroll=Theme

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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