The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 39, sentence 22

So the Sultan gave orders that the habits of mourning worn by the people should be thrown off and that there should be a concert of drums, trumpets and cymbals.

Who acts: Sultan · What happens: give, wear, throw off, be · To what, where: orders, mourning, habits, concert

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sultan), 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 gave	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Sultan	det
3	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 gave	nsubj
4	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	orders	order	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 gave	obj
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 thrown	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 habits	det
8	habits	habit	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 thrown	nsubj:pass
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 mourning	case
10	mourning	mourning	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 habits	nmod
11	worn	wear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 mourning	acl
12	by	by	ADP	_	14 people	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 people	det
14	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 worn	obl:agent
15	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 thrown	aux
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 thrown	aux:pass
17	thrown	throw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 gave	advcl
18	off	off	ADP	_	17 thrown	compound:prt
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 concert	cc
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 be	mark
21	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	23 be	expl
22	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 be	aux
23	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	25 concert	cop
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 concert	det
25	concert	concert	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 thrown	conj
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 drums	case
27	drums	drum	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 concert	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 trumpets	punct
29	trumpets	trumpet	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 drums	conj
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 cymbals	cc
31	cymbals	cymbal	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 drums	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	give	past	the Sultan	orders		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=Theme
2	wear	participle		mourning not said here		vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent
3	throw off	should · passive		the habits of mourning		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
4	is a	infinitive		a concert	of drums and trumpets and cymbals	tree rules

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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