The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 43, sentence 44

The Sultan who was not accustomed to see his offers rejected inquired their reasons, and Prince Bahman explained that they did not wish to leave their sister, and were accustomed to do nothing without consulting all three together.

Who acts: Bahman, Sultan · What happens: not accustom, see, inquire, explain, not wish, leave · To what, where: Sultan, offers, sister, nothing, three · 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 (Bahman, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Sultan	det
2	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 accustomed	nsubj:pass
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 accustomed	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 accustomed	aux:pass
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 accustomed	advmod
6	accustomed	accustom	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 see	mark
8	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 accustomed	xcomp
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 offers	nmod:poss
10	offers	offer	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 inquired	nsubj:pass
11	rejected	reject	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 inquired	aux:pass
12	inquired	inquire	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 see	ccomp
13	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 reasons	nmod:poss
14	reasons	reason	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 inquired	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 explained	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 explained	cc
17	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 Bahman	nmod:desc
18	Bahman	Bahman	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 explained	nsubj
19	explained	explain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 accustomed	parataxis
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 wish	mark
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 wish	nsubj
22	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 wish	aux
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 wish	advmod
24	wish	wish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 explained	ccomp
25	to	to	PART	_	26 leave	mark
26	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 wish	xcomp
27	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 sister	nmod:poss
28	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 leave	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 accustomed	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 accustomed	cc
31	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 accustomed	aux:pass
32	accustomed	accustom	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 explained	conj
33	to	to	PART	_	34 do	mark
34	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 accustomed	xcomp
35	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	34 do	obj
36	without	without	SCONJ	_	37 consulting	mark
37	consulting	consult	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	34 do	advcl
38	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	39 three	det
39	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	37 consulting	obj
40	together	together	ADV	_	37 consulting	advmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 accustomed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not accustom	past · passive		the Sultan		tree rules
2	see	to-infinitive				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	inquire speech: other	past · passive		Sultan's offers		tree rules
4	explain speech: assert	past	Bahman Prince			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	not wish	past · do-support	Bahman			vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
6	leave not said to happen	to-infinitive	Bahman not said here	offers's sister		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sister=Theme
7	accustom	past · passive	Bahman Prince not said here			tree rules
8	do	to-infinitive	Bahman Prince not said here	nothing		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality
9	consult	gerund	Bahman Prince not said here	all three	together property	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent three=Theme
10	offer		Sultan			nom offer «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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