The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 6, sentence 1

The day after he reached his capital the Sultan assembled his court and told them all that had befallen him, and told them how he intended to adopt the young king as his heir.

Who acts: he, day, that · What happens: reach, assemble, tell, befall, intend, adopt · To what, where: capital, court, them, him, young king · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (he, day, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 day	det
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 assembled	nsubj
3	after	after	SCONJ	_	5 reached	mark
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 reached	nsubj
5	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 day	acl:relcl
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 capital	nmod:poss
7	capital	capital	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 reached	obj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Sultan	det
9	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 reached	obj
10	assembled	assemble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 court	nmod:poss
12	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 assembled	iobj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 told	cc
14	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 assembled	conj
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 told	iobj
16	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	19 befallen	det:predet
17	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 befallen	nsubj
18	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 befallen	aux
19	befallen	befall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 told	ccomp
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 befallen	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 told	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 told	cc
23	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 assembled	conj
24	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 told	iobj
25	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	27 intended	advmod
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 intended	nsubj
27	intended	intend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 told	advcl
28	to	to	PART	_	29 adopt	mark
29	adopt	adopt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 intended	xcomp
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 king	det
31	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 king	amod
32	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 adopt	obj
33	as	as	ADP	_	35 heir	case
34	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 heir	nmod:poss
35	heir	heir	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 adopt	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 assembled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	reach	past	he	his capital			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent capital=Beneficiary sultan=Theme
2	assemble	past	the day		his court		vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent court=Theme
3	tell speech: assert	past	the day not said here		them = they		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
4	befall	past · perfect	that	him = he			tree rules
5	tell speech: assert	past	the day not said here		them = they		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient
6	intend	past	he				vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	adopt not said to happen	to-infinitive	he not said here	the young king		as king's heir	vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent king=Theme as heir=Attribute

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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