The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 37, sentence 44

Then the Caliph, convinced that the man was a thief, bade them take him away and hang him, which was done, but not before he had confessed his guilt and the place in which he had hidden Ali Cogia's money.

Who acts: Caliph, man, merchants · What happens: convince, be, take away, hang, do, not confess · To what, where: thief, Caliph, guilt, money, place

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 (Caliph, man, merchants), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 convinced	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Caliph	det
3	Caliph	Caliph	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 convinced	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 Caliph	punct
5	convinced	convince	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 thief	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 man	det
8	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 thief	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 thief	cop
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 thief	det
11	thief	thief	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 take	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 bade	punct
13	bade	bade	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 thief	conj
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 take	nsubj
15	take	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 convinced	ccomp
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 take	obj
17	away	away	ADV	_	15 take	advmod
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 hang	cc
19	hang	hang	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 take	conj
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 hang	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 done	punct
22	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 done	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 done	aux:pass
24	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 hang	advcl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 confessed	punct
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	31 confessed	cc
27	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	31 confessed	advmod
28	before	before	SCONJ	_	31 confessed	mark
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 confessed	nsubj
30	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 confessed	aux
31	confessed	confess	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 convinced	conj
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 guilt	nmod:poss
33	guilt	guilt	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 confessed	obj
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 place	cc
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 place	det
36	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 guilt	conj
37	in	in	ADP	_	38 which	case
38	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	41 hidden	obl
39	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 hidden	nsubj
40	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 hidden	aux
41	hidden	hide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	36 place	acl:relcl
42	Ali	Ali	PROPN	Number=Sing	45 money	nmod:poss
43	Cogia	Cogia	PROPN	Number=Sing	42 Ali	flat
44	's	's	PART	_	42 Ali	case
45	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 hidden	obj
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 convinced	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	convince	past	the Caliph			then		vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Result
2	is a	past	the man	a thief and bade				tree rules
3	take away	present	merchants = merchant	Caliph			away property	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
4	hang	infinitive	merchants = merchant not said here	Caliph				vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
5	do	past · passive						vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
6	not confess	past · perfect	Caliph	Caliph's guilt and the place				vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent guilt=Topic
7	hide	past · perfect	Caliph	Ali's money	the place			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent money=Patient in which=Location

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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