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The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 43, sentence 31

"Sire," replied Prince Bahman, "we are sons of your Highness's late intendant of the gardens, and we live in a house that he built a short time before his death, waiting till an occasion should offer itself to serve your Highness."

Who acts: Sire, we, occasion, Prince · What happens: reply, be, live, build, wait, offer · To what, where: Bahman, sons, house, occasion, Highness · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 43. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sire, we, occasion, Prince), 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

punctnsubjpunctpunctnmod:descobjpunctpunctnsubjcopoblcasenmod:possnmod:posscaseamodnmodcasedetnmodpunctccnsubjconjcasedetoblmarknsubjadvcldetamodobjcasenmod:possoblpunctadvclmarkdetnsubjauxadvclobjmarkadvclnmod:possobjpunctpunctroot"PUNCTSireNOUN,PUNCT"PUNCTrepliedVERBPrincePROPNBahmanPROPN,PUNCT"PUNCTwePRONareAUXsonsNOUNofADPyourPRONHighnessNOUN'sPARTlateADJintendantNOUNofADPtheDETgardensNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJwePRONliveVERBinADPaDEThouseNOUNthatSCONJhePRONbuiltVERBaDETshortADJtimeNOUNbeforeADPhisPRONdeathNOUN,PUNCTwaitingVERBtillSCONJanDEToccasionNOUNshouldAUXofferVERBitselfPRONtoPARTserveVERByourPRONHighnessNOUN.PUNCT"PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1""PUNCT_2 Sirepunct
2SiresireNOUNNumber=Sing5 repliednsubj
3,,PUNCT_2 Sirepunct
4""PUNCT_2 Sirepunct
5repliedreplyVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
6PrincePrincePROPNNumber=Sing7 Bahmannmod:desc
7BahmanBahmanPROPNNumber=Sing5 repliedobj
8,,PUNCT_12 sonspunct
9""PUNCT_12 sonspunct
10wewePRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs12 sonsnsubj
11arebeAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin12 sonscop
12sonssonNOUNNumber=Plur5 repliedobl
13ofofADP_18 intendantcase
14youryourPRONCase=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs15 Highnessnmod:poss
15HighnesshighnessNOUNNumber=Sing18 intendantnmod:poss
16's'sPART_15 Highnesscase
17latelateADJDegree=Pos18 intendantamod
18intendantintendantNOUNNumber=Sing12 sonsnmod
19ofofADP_21 gardenscase
20thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art21 gardensdet
21gardensgardenNOUNNumber=Plur18 intendantnmod
22,,PUNCT_25 livepunct
23andandCCONJ_25 livecc
24wewePRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs25 livensubj
25liveliveVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin5 repliedconj
26ininADP_28 housecase
27aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art28 housedet
28househouseNOUNNumber=Sing25 liveobl
29thatthatSCONJ_31 builtmark
30hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs31 builtnsubj
31builtbuildVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin25 liveadvcl
32aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art34 timedet
33shortshortADJDegree=Pos34 timeamod
34timetimeNOUNNumber=Sing31 builtobj
35beforebeforeADP_37 deathcase
36hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs37 deathnmod:poss
37deathdeathNOUNNumber=Sing31 builtobl
38,,PUNCT_39 waitingpunct
39waitingwaitVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part31 builtadvcl
40tilltillSCONJ_44 offermark
41anaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art42 occasiondet
42occasionoccasionNOUNNumber=Sing44 offernsubj
43shouldshouldAUXVerbForm=Fin44 offeraux
44offerofferVERBVerbForm=Inf39 waitingadvcl
45itselfitselfPRONCase=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes44 offerobj
46totoPART_47 servemark
47serveserveVERBVerbForm=Inf44 offeradvcl
48youryourPRONCase=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs49 Highnessnmod:poss
49HighnesshighnessNOUNNumber=Sing47 serveobj
50..PUNCT_5 repliedpunct
51""PUNCT_5 repliedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1reply speech: assertpastSireBahman Princevn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent bahman=Topic
2is a in a quotepresentwesonsof your Highness's late intendant of the gardenstree rules
3live in a quotepresentwea housevn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in house=Location
4build in a quotepastSirebefore Prince's death; timevn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
5wait in a quotegerundSire not said herevn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6offer in a quoteshoulda occasionoccasionvn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent itself=Theme
7serve in a quoteto-infinitivea occasion not said hereyour Highnessvn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent highness=Attribute
8die in a quotePrincenom death «event intransitive»: 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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