The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 4, sentence 137

He looked at them one after the other, and when he had admired them long enough, "Take these fish," he said to his first vizir, "and given them to the clever cook the Emperor of the Greeks sent me.

Who acts: fish, Emperor · What happens: look, admire, take, say, give, send · To what, where: one, nets, fish, first vizir, clever cook · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fish, Emperor), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 looked	nsubj
2	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 them	case
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 looked	obl
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 looked	obl:unmarked
6	after	after	ADP	_	8 other	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 other	det
8	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 one	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 admired	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 admired	cc
11	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 admired	advmod
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 admired	nsubj
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 admired	aux
14	admired	admire	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 looked	conj
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 admired	obj
16	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	14 admired	advmod
17	enough	enough	ADV	_	16 long	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 Take	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 Take	punct
20	Take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 looked	parataxis
21	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	22 fish	det
22	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 Take	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 Take	punct
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 looked	punct
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 said	nsubj
26	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 looked	parataxis
27	to	to	ADP	_	30 vizir	case
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 vizir	nmod:poss
29	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	30 vizir	amod
30	vizir	vizir	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 said	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 vizir	punct
32	"	"	PUNCT	_	30 vizir	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 given	cc
34	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 said	conj
35	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 given	obj
36	to	to	ADP	_	39 cook	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 cook	det
38	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 cook	amod
39	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 given	obl
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 Emperor	det
41	Emperor	Emperor	PROPN	Number=Sing	45 sent	nsubj
42	of	of	ADP	_	44 Greeks	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 Greeks	det
44	Greeks	Greek	PROPN	Number=Plur	41 Emperor	nmod
45	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 given	parataxis
46	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	45 sent	obj
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	look	past	fish	one after the other		at nets = net	tree rules
2	admire	past · perfect	fish	nets = net		long property	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus
3	take in a quote	infinitive			this fish		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument fish=Destination
4	say speech: assert	past	fish		fish's first vizir		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to vizir=Recipient
5	give in a quote	participle	fish not said here	nets = net	the clever cook		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Theme to cook=Recipient
6	send in a quote	past	the Emperor of the Greeks	fish			vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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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