The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 5, sentence 3

Then he went back to the Sultan, who told him to give the fisherman four hundred gold pieces.

Who acts: vizir · What happens: go back, tell, give · To what, where: vizir, fisherman · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (vizir), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 went	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	back	back	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 Sultan	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Sultan	det
7	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 told	punct
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 told	nsubj
10	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 told	iobj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 give	mark
13	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 told	xcomp
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 fisherman	det
15	fisherman	fisherman	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 give	obj
16	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 hundred	compound
17	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 pieces	nummod
18	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 pieces	compound
19	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 give	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	go back	past	vizir			then	to the Sultan result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to sultan=Result
2	tell speech: assert	past			vizir			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
3	give not said to happen	to-infinitive		the fisherman				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent fisherman=Recipient piece=Theme

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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