The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 40, sentence 1

The chief usher assured him that he was heartily welcome, and that the Sultan would receive him with pleasure; and in case of success, he would gain a magnificent reward.

Who acts: chief usher, usher, Sultan · What happens: assure, be, receive, gain · To what, where: him, heartily welcome, usher, magnificent reward

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 40. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (chief usher, usher, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 usher	det
2	chief	chief	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 usher	amod
3	usher	usher	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 assured	nsubj
4	assured	assure	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 assured	iobj
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 welcome	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 welcome	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 welcome	cop
9	heartily	heartily	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 welcome	amod
10	welcome	welcome	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 assured	ccomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 receive	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 receive	cc
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 receive	mark
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Sultan	det
15	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 receive	nsubj
16	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 receive	aux
17	receive	receive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 assured	conj
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 receive	obj
19	with	with	ADP	_	20 pleasure	case
20	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 receive	obl
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 gain	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 gain	cc
23	in	in	ADP	_	24 case	case
24	case	case	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 gain	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 success	case
26	success	success	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 case	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 case	punct
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 gain	nsubj
29	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 gain	aux
30	gain	gain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 assured	parataxis
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 reward	det
32	magnificent	magnificent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 reward	amod
33	reward	reward	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 gain	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 assured	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	assure	past	the chief usher		him = he		vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
2	is a	past	usher	heartily welcome			tree rules
3	receive	would	the Sultan	usher		with pleasure	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
4	gain	would	Sultan	a magnificent reward		in case of success	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient reward=Extent in case=Attribute

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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