The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 43, sentence 70

The Sultan commanded that splendid apartments should be prepared for the two brothers, and even insisted that they should sit at table with him.

Who acts: Sultan, splendid apartments, apartments · What happens: command, be, insist, sit · To what, where: table · 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, splendid apartments, apartments), 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 commanded	nsubj
3	commanded	command	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 prepared	mark
5	splendid	splendid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 apartments	amod
6	apartments	apartment	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 prepared	nsubj
7	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 prepared	aux
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 prepared	cop
9	prepared	prepared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 commanded	ccomp
10	for	for	ADP	_	13 brothers	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 brothers	det
12	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 brothers	nummod
13	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 prepared	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 insisted	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 insisted	cc
16	even	even	ADV	_	17 insisted	advmod
17	insisted	insist	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 commanded	conj
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 sit	mark
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 sit	nsubj
20	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 sit	aux
21	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 insisted	ccomp
22	at	at	ADP	_	23 table	case
23	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 sit	obl
24	with	with	ADP	_	25 him	case
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 sit	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 commanded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	command	past	the Sultan			vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent
2	is	should	splendid apartments		for the two brothers; prepared property	tree rules
3	insist speech: other	past	the Sultan not said here			vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	sit	should	apartments = apartment	table	with Sultan	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at table=Location

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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