The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 41, sentence 36

But the intendant declared that he wished for nothing except the continuance of his Highness's favour, and prostrating himself once more, he retired from the Sultan's presence.

Who acts: intendant, Sultan, favour, Highness · What happens: declare, wish, prostrate, retire, continue, favour · To what, where: Sultan, presence · 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 (intendant, Sultan, favour, 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 declared	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 intendant	det
3	intendant	intendant	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 declared	nsubj
4	declared	declare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 wished	mark
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 wished	nsubj
7	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 declared	ccomp
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 nothing	case
9	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	7 wished	obl
10	except	except	ADP	_	12 continuance	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 continuance	det
12	continuance	continuance	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 nothing	nmod
13	of	of	ADP	_	17 favour	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 Highness	nmod:poss
15	Highness	highness	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 favour	nmod:poss
16	's	's	PART	_	15 Highness	case
17	favour	favour	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 continuance	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 prostrating	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 prostrating	cc
20	prostrating	prostrate	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 declared	advcl
21	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	20 prostrating	obj
22	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	23 more	advmod
23	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	20 prostrating	advmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 retired	punct
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 retired	nsubj
26	retired	retire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 declared	conj
27	from	from	ADP	_	31 presence	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 Sultan	det
29	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 presence	nmod:poss
30	's	's	PART	_	29 Sultan	case
31	presence	presence	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 retired	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 declared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	declare speech: other	past	the intendant				vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	wish	past	Sultan			for nothing	vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for nothing=Theme
3	prostrate	gerund	the intendant not said here	Sultan			tree rules
4	retire	past	Sultan		the Sultan's presence		vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from presence=Source
5	continue		Sultan's Highness's favour				nom continuance «act intransitive»: of=agent
6	favour		Sultan's Highness				nom favour «feeling 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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