The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 37, sentence 27

When the grand-vizir presented the child to the Caliph, he was a little awed and confused, and the Caliph proceeded to explain why he had sent for him. "

Who acts: grand vizir, Caliph, two · What happens: present, awe, proceed, explain, send · To what, where: child, Caliph, two · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (grand vizir, Caliph, two), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 presented	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 vizir	det
3	grand	grand	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 vizir	amod
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 grand	punct
5	vizir	vizir	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 presented	nsubj
6	presented	present	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 awed	advcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 child	det
8	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 presented	obj
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 Caliph	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Caliph	det
11	Caliph	Caliph	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 presented	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 presented	punct
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 awed	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 awed	aux:pass
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 little	det
16	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 awed	obl:unmarked
17	awed	awe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 confused	cc
19	confused	confused	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 awed	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 proceeded	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 proceeded	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 Caliph	det
23	Caliph	Caliph	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 proceeded	nsubj
24	proceeded	proceed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 awed	conj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 explain	mark
26	explain	explain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 proceeded	xcomp
27	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	30 sent	advmod
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 sent	nsubj
29	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 sent	aux
30	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	26 explain	ccomp
31	for	for	ADP	_	32 him	case
32	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 sent	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 awed	punct
34	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 awed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	present	past	the grand vizir	the child	the Caliph		vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent child=Theme to caliph=Recipient
2	awe	past · passive		two		a little obl:unmarked	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
3	proceed	past	the Caliph				vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	explain speech: assert	to-infinitive	the Caliph not said here				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	send	past · perfect	two			for Caliph	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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