The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 43, sentence 67

The Sultan received their excuses with great kindness, and told them that he was sure they would be equally faithful to him, and kept them by his side for the rest of the day, to the vexation of the grand-vizir and the rest of the court.

Who acts: Sultan, Bahman · What happens: receive, tell, be, keep, excuse, vex · To what, where: excuses, Bahman, Sultan, grand vizir · 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 (Sultan, Bahman), 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	3 received	nsubj
3	received	receive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 excuses	nmod:poss
5	excuses	excuse	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 received	obj
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 kindness	case
7	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 kindness	amod
8	kindness	kindness	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 received	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 told	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 told	cc
11	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 received	conj
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 told	iobj
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 sure	mark
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 sure	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 sure	cop
16	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 told	ccomp
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 faithful	nsubj
18	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 faithful	aux
19	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 faithful	cop
20	equally	equally	ADV	_	21 faithful	advmod
21	faithful	faithful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 sure	ccomp
22	to	to	ADP	_	23 him	case
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 faithful	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 kept	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 kept	cc
26	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 sure	parataxis
27	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 kept	obj
28	by	by	ADP	_	30 side	case
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 side	nmod:poss
30	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 kept	obl
31	for	for	ADP	_	33 rest	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 rest	det
33	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 kept	obl
34	of	of	ADP	_	36 day	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 day	det
36	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 rest	nmod
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 vexation	punct
38	to	to	ADP	_	40 vexation	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 vexation	det
40	vexation	vexation	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 kept	parataxis
41	of	of	ADP	_	45 vizir	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 vizir	det
43	grand	grand	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 vizir	amod
44	-	-	PUNCT	_	43 grand	punct
45	vizir	vizir	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 vexation	nmod
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 rest	cc
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 rest	det
48	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 vizir	conj
49	of	of	ADP	_	51 court	case
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 court	det
51	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 rest	nmod
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 received	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	receive	past	the Sultan	Bahman's excuses		with great kindness	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent excuse=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	past	the Sultan not said here		Bahman		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient
3	is	past	Sultan			sure property	tree rules
4	is	would	Bahman		Sultan	equally, faithful property	tree rules
5	keep	past		Bahman		by Sultan's side; for the rest of the day	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Theme by side=Location
6	excuse		Bahman				nom excuse «communication transitive»: poss=agent
7	vex			the grand vizir and the rest of the court			nom vexation «feeling transitive»: of=patient

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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