The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 4, sentence 66

"Sire," went on the vizir to the Greek king, "to return to the physician, Douban.

What happens: go, return · To what, where: Sire, vizir · 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: 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Sire	punct
2	Sire	sire	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 went	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Sire	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 went	punct
5	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 vizir	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 vizir	det
8	vizir	vizir	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 went	obl
9	to	to	ADP	_	12 king	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 king	det
11	Greek	Greek	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 king	amod
12	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 went	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 return	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 return	punct
15	to	to	PART	_	16 return	mark
16	return	return	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 went	parataxis
17	to	to	ADP	_	19 physician	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 physician	det
19	physician	physician	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 return	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 Douban	punct
21	Douban	Douban	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 physician	appos
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past		Sire		the vizir		to the Greek king	vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	return in a quote	to-infinitive						to the physician result	vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to physician=Result

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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