The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 41, sentence 21

The grand-vizir saw that it was useless to say more, and, full of triumph, the sisters watched the building of the box, and then listened to the jeers of the people at the helpless Sultana sitting inside.

Who acts: grand vizir, it, sisters, people · What happens: see, be, say, watch, listen, sit · To what, where: more, building · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 41. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (grand vizir, it, sisters, people), 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	4 vizir	det
2	grand	grand	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 vizir	amod
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 grand	punct
4	vizir	vizir	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 saw	nsubj
5	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 useless	mark
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 useless	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 useless	cop
9	useless	useless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 saw	ccomp
10	to	to	PART	_	11 say	mark
11	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 useless	csubj
12	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	11 say	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 full	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 full	cc
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 full	punct
16	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 saw	conj
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 triumph	case
18	triumph	triumph	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 full	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 watched	punct
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 sisters	det
21	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 watched	nsubj
22	watched	watch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 saw	parataxis
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 building	det
24	building	building	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 watched	obj
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 box	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 box	det
27	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 building	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 listened	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 listened	cc
30	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	31 listened	advmod
31	listened	listen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 watched	conj
32	to	to	ADP	_	34 jeers	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 jeers	det
34	jeers	jeer	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 listened	obl
35	of	of	ADP	_	37 people	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 people	det
37	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 jeers	nmod
38	at	at	ADP	_	41 Sultana	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 Sultana	det
40	helpless	helpless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 Sultana	amod
41	Sultana	Sultana	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 people	nmod
42	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	37 people	acl
43	inside	inside	ADV	_	42 sitting	advmod
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	the grand vizir				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is	past	it			useless property	tree rules
3	say speech: assert	to-infinitive		more			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent more=Topic
4	watch	past	the sisters	the building of the box			vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent building=Theme
5	listen	past	the sisters not said here		then	to the jeers of the people at the helpless Sultana	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to jeer=Theme
6	sit	gerund	the people at the helpless Sultana not said here			inside property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	jeer		the people at the helpless Sultana				nom jeer «communication intransitive»: of=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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