The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 37, sentence 54

The King of Persia, who was interested in every thing out of the common, and had never before come across a horse with such qualities, bade the Indian mount the animal, and show what he could do.

Who acts: King · What happens: be, come, show, do · To what, where: thing · 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 (King), 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 King	det
2	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 interested	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 Persia	case
4	Persia	Persia	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 King	nmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 interested	punct
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 interested	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 interested	cop
8	interested	interested	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 thing	case
10	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	11 thing	det
11	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 interested	obl
12	out	out	ADP	_	15 common	case
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 common	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 common	det
15	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 interested	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 come	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 come	cc
18	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 come	aux
19	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	20 before	advmod
20	before	before	ADV	_	21 come	advmod
21	come	come	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	8 interested	parataxis
22	across	across	ADP	_	24 horse	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 horse	det
24	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 come	obl
25	with	with	ADP	_	27 qualities	case
26	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 qualities	amod
27	qualities	quality	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 horse	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 bade	punct
29	bade	bade	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 qualities	conj
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 mount	det
31	Indian	Indian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 mount	amod
32	mount	mount	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 horse	conj
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 animal	det
34	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 mount	appos
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 show	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 show	cc
37	show	show	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	21 come	conj
38	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	41 do	obj
39	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 do	nsubj
40	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	41 do	aux
41	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 show	ccomp
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 interested	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the King of Persia	every thing	out the common; interested property	tree rules
2	come	past			across a horse with such qualities and bade and the Indian mount; before property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme across horse=Initial_Location
3	show	infinitive				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	do	could	king			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

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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