The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 44, sentence 60
Without an instant's delay he sent for the grand-vizir, and ordered him to seize and question the Sultana's sisters that very day.
Who acts: Sultan, that · What happens: send, order, seize, question, day · To what, where: Sultan, sisters
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, that), 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 | Without | without | ADP | _ | 5 delay | case |
| 2 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 instant | det |
| 3 | instant | instant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 delay | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 instant | case |
| 5 | delay | delay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sent | obl |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 sent | nsubj |
| 7 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 vizir | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 vizir | det |
| 10 | grand | grand | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 vizir | amod |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 grand | punct |
| 12 | vizir | vizir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sent | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 ordered | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 ordered | cc |
| 15 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 sent | advcl |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 ordered | obj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 seize | mark |
| 18 | seize | seize | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 ordered | xcomp |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 question | cc |
| 20 | question | question | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 seize | conj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Sultana | det |
| 22 | Sultana | Sultana | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 sisters | nmod:poss |
| 23 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 22 Sultana | case |
| 24 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 question | obj |
| 25 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 day | nsubj |
| 26 | very | very | ADV | _ | 27 day | advmod |
| 27 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 sisters | nmod:unmarked |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | Sultan | without a instant's delay; for the grand vizir | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | order | past | Sultan not said here | Sultan | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | seize not said to happen | to-infinitive | Sultan not said here | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | question speech: other | infinitive | Sultan not said here | the Sultana's sisters | vn interrogate-37.1.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sister=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | day | that | tree rules |
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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