The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 37, sentence 43

The boy had too much sense to order him to be hanged, and looked at the Caliph, saying, "Commander of the Faithful, this is not a game now; it is for your Highness to condemn him to death and not for me."

Who acts: boy, this, sense · What happens: have, order, hange, look, say, not be · To what, where: much sense, boy, Commander, game · 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 (boy, this, sense), 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	2 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 much	advmod
5	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 sense	amod
6	sense	sense	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 order	mark
8	order	order	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 had	advcl
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 order	obj
10	to	to	PART	_	12 hanged	mark
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 hanged	aux:pass
12	hanged	hange	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 order	xcomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 looked	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 looked	cc
15	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 had	conj
16	at	at	ADP	_	18 Caliph	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Caliph	det
18	Caliph	Caliph	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 looked	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 saying	punct
20	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 looked	advcl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 Commander	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 Commander	punct
23	Commander	Commander	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 saying	obj
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 Faithful	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 Faithful	det
26	Faithful	faithful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 Commander	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 game	punct
28	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	32 game	nsubj
29	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 game	cop
30	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	32 game	advmod
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 game	det
32	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 Commander	appos
33	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	32 game	advmod
34	;	;	PUNCT	_	39 Highness	punct
35	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 Highness	nsubj
36	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	39 Highness	cop
37	for	for	ADP	_	39 Highness	case
38	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 Highness	nmod:poss
39	Highness	highness	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	parataxis
40	to	to	PART	_	41 condemn	mark
41	condemn	condemn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 Highness	acl
42	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 condemn	obj
43	to	to	ADP	_	44 death	case
44	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 condemn	obl
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 me	cc
46	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	48 me	advmod
47	for	for	ADP	_	48 me	case
48	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	44 death	conj
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	39 Highness	punct
50	"	"	PUNCT	_	39 Highness	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	the boy	much sense				tree rules
2	order	to-infinitive	the boy not said here		boy			vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
3	hange not said to happen	to-infinitive · passive	the boy not said here					tree rules
4	look	past	the boy not said here				at the Caliph	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at caliph=Theme
5	say speech: assert	gerund	the boy not said here	Commander of the Faithful				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent commander=Topic
6	not is a in a quote	present	this	a game		now		tree rules
7	is in a quote	present	sense				for your Highness	tree rules
8	condemn in a quote	to-infinitive	the boy not said here	boy			to death	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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