The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 43, sentence 61

"The princes must on no account refuse the Sultan's proposal," said he, "and they must even invite him to come and see your house."

Who acts: princes, Prince, offers, Sultan · What happens: refuse, say, invite, come, see, propose · To what, where: proposal, Prince, house · 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 (princes, Prince, offers, 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 refuse	punct
2	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 princes	det
3	princes	prince	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 refuse	nsubj
4	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 account	aux
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 account	case
6	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 account	det
7	account	account	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 princes	nmod
8	refuse	refuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 said	ccomp
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Sultan	det
10	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 proposal	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 Sultan	case
12	proposal	proposal	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 refuse	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 refuse	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 refuse	punct
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 said	nsubj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 said	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 said	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 invite	cc
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 invite	nsubj
21	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 invite	aux
22	even	even	ADV	_	23 invite	advmod
23	invite	invite	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 said	conj
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 invite	obj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 come	mark
26	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 invite	xcomp
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 see	cc
28	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 come	conj
29	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 house	nmod:poss
30	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 see	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	23 invite	punct
32	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 invite	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	refuse in a quote	present	the princes on no account	the Sultan's proposal	vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent proposal=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	Prince		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	invite in a quote	must	offers = offer	Prince	vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
4	come not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	Prince not said here		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	see in a quote	infinitive	Prince not said here	your house	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer house=Stimulus
6	propose in a quote		the Sultan		nom proposal «communication 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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