The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 6, sentence 70

Passing down the street, the Caliph had been attracted by the music of instruments and the sound of laughter, and had ordered his vizir to go and knock at the door of the house, as he wished to enter.

Who acts: music, vizir, Caliph · What happens: pass down, attract, order, go, knock, wish · To what, where: street, Caliph, vizir

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 (music, vizir, Caliph), 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	Passing	pass	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 attracted	advcl
2	down	down	ADP	_	4 street	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 street	det
4	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Passing	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Passing	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Caliph	det
7	Caliph	Caliph	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 attracted	nsubj:pass
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 attracted	aux
9	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 attracted	aux:pass
10	attracted	attract	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
11	by	by	ADP	_	13 music	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 music	det
13	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 attracted	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 instruments	case
15	instruments	instrument	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 music	nmod
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 sound	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 sound	det
18	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 instruments	conj
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 laughter	case
20	laughter	laughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 sound	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 ordered	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 ordered	cc
23	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 ordered	aux
24	ordered	order	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 attracted	parataxis
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 vizir	nmod:poss
26	vizir	vizir	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 ordered	obj
27	to	to	PART	_	28 go	mark
28	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 ordered	xcomp
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 knock	cc
30	knock	knock	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 go	conj
31	at	at	ADP	_	33 door	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 door	det
33	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 knock	obl
34	of	of	ADP	_	36 house	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 house	det
36	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 door	nmod
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 wished	punct
38	as	as	SCONJ	_	40 wished	mark
39	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 wished	nsubj
40	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 ordered	conj
41	to	to	PART	_	42 enter	mark
42	enter	enter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	40 wished	xcomp
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 attracted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	pass down	gerund	the music of instruments and the sound of laughter not said here	the street		vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme street=Trajectory
2	attract	past · perfect · passive	the music of instruments and the sound of laughter	the Caliph		vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient
3	order	past · perfect		Caliph's vizir		vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent vizir=Recipient clause=Topic
4	go not said to happen	to-infinitive	Caliph's vizir not said here			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	knock	infinitive	Caliph's vizir not said here		at the door of the house	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at door=Patient
6	wish	past	Caliph			vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
7	enter not said to happen	to-infinitive	Caliph not said here			vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=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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