The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 41, sentence 26

The princes had been named by their foster-father Bahman and Perviz, after two of the ancient kings of Persia, while the princess was called Parizade, or the child of the genii.

Who acts: foster father · What happens: name, call · To what, where: princes, princess · 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 (foster father), 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	2 princes	det
2	princes	prince	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 named	nsubj:pass
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 named	aux
4	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 named	aux:pass
5	named	name	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	by	by	ADP	_	10 father	case
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 father	nmod:poss
8	foster	foster	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 father	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 foster	punct
10	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 named	obl
11	Bahman	Bahman	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 father	appos
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 Perviz	cc
13	Perviz	Perviz	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Bahman	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 two	punct
15	after	after	ADP	_	16 two	case
16	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 named	conj
17	of	of	ADP	_	20 kings	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 kings	det
19	ancient	ancient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 kings	amod
20	kings	king	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 two	nmod
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 Persia	case
22	Persia	Persia	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 kings	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 called	punct
24	while	while	SCONJ	_	28 called	mark
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 princess	det
26	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 called	nsubj:pass
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 called	aux:pass
28	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 named	conj
29	Parizade	Parizade	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 called	xcomp
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 child	punct
31	or	or	CCONJ	_	33 child	cc
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 child	det
33	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 called	conj
34	of	of	ADP	_	36 genii	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 genii	det
36	genii	genii	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 child	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 named	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	name	past · perfect · passive	children's foster father	the princes					vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme
2	call	past · passive		the princess					vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient

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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