The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 41, sentence 35

This was granted by the Sultan in a few gracious words, and he then inquired what reward he could give to his faithful servant.

Who acts: Sultan · What happens: grant, inquire, give · To what, where: This, few gracious words, faithful servant · 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 (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	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 granted	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 granted	aux:pass
3	granted	grant	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 Sultan	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Sultan	det
6	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 granted	obl
7	in	in	ADP	_	11 words	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 words	det
9	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 words	amod
10	gracious	gracious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 words	amod
11	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 granted	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 inquired	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 inquired	cc
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 inquired	nsubj
15	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 inquired	advmod
16	inquired	inquire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 granted	conj
17	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	21 give	obj
18	reward	reward	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 give	aux
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 give	nsubj
20	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 give	aux
21	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 inquired	ccomp
22	to	to	ADP	_	25 servant	case
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 servant	nmod:poss
24	faithful	faithful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 servant	amod
25	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 give	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 granted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	grant	past · passive	the Sultan	This		a few gracious words		vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent subject=Theme
2	inquire speech: other	past	Sultan				then	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	give	could · present	Sultan		Sultan's faithful servant			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Theme to servant=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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