The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 44, sentence 45

"I thank you, good bird," answered the Sultan, seating himself before the repast, which was spread at a table near the window, "and I am enchanted to see in you the Sultan and King of the Birds."

Who acts: Sultan · What happens: thank, answer, seat, spread, enchant, see · To what, where: good bird, you, Sultan, repast, table · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 44. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	_	3 thank	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 thank	nsubj
3	thank	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 thank	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 bird	punct
6	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 bird	amod
7	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 thank	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 thank	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 answered	punct
10	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 thank	parataxis
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Sultan	det
12	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 answered	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 seating	punct
14	seating	seat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 answered	advcl
15	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	14 seating	obj
16	before	before	ADP	_	18 repast	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 repast	det
18	repast	repast	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 seating	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 spread	punct
20	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 spread	nsubj:pass
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 spread	aux:pass
22	spread	spread	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 repast	acl:relcl
23	at	at	ADP	_	25 table	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 table	det
25	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 spread	obl
26	near	near	ADP	_	28 window	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 window	det
28	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 table	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 answered	punct
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 thank	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 enchanted	cc
32	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 enchanted	nsubj
33	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 enchanted	aux:pass
34	enchanted	enchant	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 thank	conj
35	to	to	PART	_	36 see	mark
36	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 enchanted	xcomp
37	in	in	ADP	_	38 you	case
38	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	36 see	obl
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 Sultan	det
40	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 see	obj
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 King	cc
42	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	40 Sultan	conj
43	of	of	ADP	_	45 Birds	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 Birds	det
45	Birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 see	obl
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 thank	punct
47	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 thank	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	thank speech: thank in a quote	present	the Sultan = sultan	good bird	you				tree rules
2	answer speech: assert	past	the Sultan						vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	seat	gerund	the Sultan not said here	Sultan			before the repast		vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location himself=Value
4	spread	past · passive		the repast		a table near the window			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination-Conative»: subject=Theme at table=Destination
5	enchant in a quote	present · passive		Sultan					tree rules
6	see in a quote	to-infinitive		the Sultan and King				in you; of the Birds	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sultan=Stimulus

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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