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The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 41, sentence 34

When everything was ready, the intendant threw himself at the Sultan's feet, and after referring to his age and his long services, begged his Highness's permission to resign his post.

Who acts: everything, intendant, park, Highness · What happens: be, throw, refer, beg, resign, service · To what, where: park, feet, permission, post

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 (everything, intendant, park, Highness), 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

advmodnsubjcoppunctdetnsubjparataxisobjcasedetnmod:posscaseoblpunctccmarkadvclcasenmod:possoblccnmod:possamodconjpunctconjnmod:possnmod:posscaseobjmarkadvclnmod:possobjpunctrootWhenADVeverythingPRONwasAUXreadyADJ,PUNCTtheDETintendantNOUNthrewVERBhimselfPRONatADPtheDETSultanPROPN'sPARTfeetNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJafterSCONJreferringVERBtoADPhisPRONageNOUNandCCONJhisPRONlongADJservicesNOUN,PUNCTbeggedVERBhisPRONHighnessNOUN'sPARTpermissionNOUNtoPARTresignVERBhisPRONpostNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1WhenwhenADVPronType=Int4 readyadvmod
2everythingeverythingPRONNumber=Sing PronType=Tot4 readynsubj
3wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin4 readycop
4readyreadyADJDegree=Posrootroot
5,,PUNCT_8 threwpunct
6thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art7 intendantdet
7intendantintendantNOUNNumber=Sing8 threwnsubj
8threwthrowVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin4 readyparataxis
9himselfhimselfPRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes8 threwobj
10atatADP_14 feetcase
11thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art12 Sultandet
12SultanSultanPROPNNumber=Sing14 feetnmod:poss
13's'sPART_12 Sultancase
14feetfootNOUNNumber=Plur8 threwobl
15,,PUNCT_27 beggedpunct
16andandCCONJ_27 beggedcc
17afterafterSCONJ_18 referringmark
18referringreferVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part27 beggedadvcl
19totoADP_21 agecase
20hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs21 agenmod:poss
21ageageNOUNNumber=Sing18 referringobl
22andandCCONJ_25 servicescc
23hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs25 servicesnmod:poss
24longlongADJDegree=Pos25 servicesamod
25servicesserviceNOUNNumber=Plur21 ageconj
26,,PUNCT_18 referringpunct
27beggedbegVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin4 readyconj
28hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs29 Highnessnmod:poss
29HighnesshighnessNOUNNumber=Sing31 permissionnmod:poss
30's'sPART_29 Highnesscase
31permissionpermissionNOUNNumber=Sing27 beggedobj
32totoPART_33 resignmark
33resignresignVERBVerbForm=Inf27 beggedadvcl
34hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs35 postnmod:poss
35postpostNOUNNumber=Sing33 resignobj
36..PUNCT_4 readypunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1ispasteverythingready propertytree rules
2throwpastthe intendantparkthe Sultan's feetvn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent himself=Theme at foot=Destination
3refergerundto park's age and park's long servicesvn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to age=Co-Theme
4beg speech: requestpasteverything not said herepark's Highness's permissionvn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent permission=Recipient
5resignto-infinitiveeverything not said herepark's postvn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent post=Theme
6serviceparknom service «act transitive»: poss=agent
7permitpark's Highnessnom permission «communication 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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