The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 40, sentence 69

That of the youngest was marked by all the magnificence that was customary at the marriage of the Shah of Persia, while the festivities attending the nuptials of the Sultan's baker and his chief cook were only such as were suitable to their conditions.

Who acts: magnificence, that, festivities · What happens: mark, be, attend, marry, condition · To what, where: That, customary, marriage, nuptials, Shah

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 (magnificence, that, festivities), 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	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 marked	nsubj:pass
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 youngest	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 youngest	det
4	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 marked	nsubj:pass
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 marked	aux:pass
6	marked	mark	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	by	by	ADP	_	10 magnificence	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 magnificence	det:predet
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 magnificence	det
10	magnificence	magnificence	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 marked	obl
11	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 customary	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 customary	cop
13	customary	customary	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 magnificence	conj
14	at	at	ADP	_	16 marriage	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 marriage	det
16	marriage	marriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 customary	nmod
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 Shah	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Shah	det
19	Shah	Shah	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 marriage	nmod
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 Persia	case
21	Persia	Persia	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 Shah	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 suitable	punct
23	while	while	SCONJ	_	40 such	mark
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 festivities	det
25	festivities	festivity	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 such	nsubj
26	attending	attend	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	25 festivities	acl
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 nuptials	det
28	nuptials	nuptial	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 attending	obj
29	of	of	ADP	_	33 baker	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 Sultan	det
31	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 baker	nmod:poss
32	's	's	PART	_	31 Sultan	case
33	baker	baker	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 nuptials	nmod
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 cook	cc
35	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 cook	nmod:poss
36	chief	chief	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 cook	amod
37	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 baker	conj
38	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 such	cop
39	only	only	ADV	_	40 such	advmod
40	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	43 suitable	advmod
41	as	as	ADP	_	40 such	fixed
42	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 suitable	cop
43	suitable	suitable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 marked	conj
44	to	to	ADP	_	46 conditions	case
45	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	46 conditions	nmod:poss
46	conditions	condition	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 suitable	obl
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 marked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	mark	past · passive	all magnificence and customary	That			vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent subject=Destination
2	is a	past	that	customary	the marriage of the Shah of Persia		tree rules
3	attend	gerund	the festivities not said here	the nuptials of the Sultan's baker and Sultan's chief cook			vn attend-107.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme nuptial=Goal
4	is	past	the festivities			such property	tree rules
5	is	past	all magnificence and customary not said here			to festivities's conditions; suitable property	tree rules
6	marry			the Shah of Persia			nom marriage «state transitive»: of=patient
7	condition		festivities = festivity				nom condition «state transitive»: poss=agent

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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