The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 43, sentence 79

The Sultan will expect a dinner he can eat, and not one he can only admire!

Who acts: Sultan, one · What happens: expect, eat, admire · To what, where: dinner

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, one), 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	4 expect	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 expect	aux
4	expect	expect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 dinner	det
6	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 expect	obj
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 eat	nsubj
8	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 eat	aux
9	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 dinner	acl:relcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 admire	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 admire	cc
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 one	advmod
13	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 admire	nsubj
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 admire	nsubj
15	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 admire	aux
16	only	only	ADV	_	17 admire	advmod
17	admire	admire	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 expect	conj
18	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 expect	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	expect	future	the Sultan	a dinner	vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dinner=Theme
2	eat	can	Sultan	a dinner not said here	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dinner=Patient
3	admire	can	one		vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer

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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