The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 4, sentence 43

He often allowed him to indulge in this pastime, but he had ordered his grand-vizir always to go with him, and never to lose sight of him.

Who acts: story · What happens: allow, indulge, order, go, not lose, sight · To what, where: king, pastime, grand vizir, sight, story

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 (story), 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	3 allowed	nsubj
2	often	often	ADV	_	3 allowed	advmod
3	allowed	allow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 allowed	iobj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 indulge	mark
6	indulge	indulge	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 allowed	xcomp
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 pastime	case
8	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 pastime	det
9	pastime	pastime	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 indulge	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 ordered	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 ordered	cc
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 ordered	nsubj
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 ordered	aux
14	ordered	order	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 allowed	parataxis
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 vizir	nmod:poss
16	grand	grand	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 vizir	amod
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 grand	punct
18	vizir	vizir	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 ordered	obj
19	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	21 go	advmod
20	to	to	PART	_	21 go	mark
21	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	14 ordered	ccomp
22	with	with	ADP	_	23 him	case
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 go	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 lose	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 lose	cc
26	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	28 lose	advmod
27	to	to	PART	_	28 lose	mark
28	lose	lose	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	21 go	conj
29	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 lose	obj
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 him	case
31	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 sight	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 allowed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	allow	past	story		king		often property	vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer he=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
2	indulge not said to happen	to-infinitive	story not said here			this pastime		tree rules
3	order	past · perfect	story	story's grand vizir				vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent vizir=Recipient clause=Topic
4	go not said to happen	to-infinitive	story not said here				with story; always property	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with he=Beneficiary
5	not lose	to-infinitive	story not said here	sight of story				vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Eventuality
6	sight			story				nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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