The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 6, sentence 71

The vizir replied that the ladies who lived there seemed to be entertaining their friends, and he thought his master would do well not to intrude on them; but the Caliph had taken it into his head to see for himself, and insisted on being obeyed.

Who acts: vizir, ladies, master · What happens: reply, live, seem, entertain, think, do · To what, where: friends, Caliph, head · 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 (vizir, ladies, master), 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 vizir	det
2	vizir	vizir	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 replied	nsubj
3	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 seemed	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 ladies	det
6	ladies	lady	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 seemed	nsubj
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 lived	nsubj
8	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 ladies	acl:relcl
9	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 lived	advmod
10	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 replied	ccomp
11	to	to	PART	_	13 entertaining	mark
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 entertaining	aux
13	entertaining	entertain	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 seemed	xcomp
14	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 friends	nmod:poss
15	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 entertaining	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 thought	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 thought	cc
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 thought	nsubj
19	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 seemed	conj
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 master	nmod:poss
21	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 do	nsubj
22	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 do	aux
23	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 thought	ccomp
24	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	23 do	advmod
25	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 intrude	advmod
26	to	to	PART	_	27 intrude	mark
27	intrude	intrude	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 do	advcl:relcl
28	on	on	ADP	_	29 them	case
29	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 intrude	obl
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	35 taken	punct
31	but	but	CCONJ	_	35 taken	cc
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 Caliph	det
33	Caliph	Caliph	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 taken	nsubj:pass
34	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 taken	aux
35	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 replied	conj
36	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 taken	obj
37	into	into	ADP	_	39 head	case
38	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 head	nmod:poss
39	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 taken	obl
40	to	to	PART	_	41 see	mark
41	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 taken	advcl
42	for	for	ADP	_	43 himself	case
43	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	41 see	obl
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 insisted	punct
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 insisted	cc
46	insisted	insist	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 replied	conj
47	on	on	SCONJ	_	49 obeyed	mark
48	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	49 obeyed	aux:pass
49	obeyed	obey	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	46 insisted	xcomp
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 replied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	reply speech: assert	past	the vizir				vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	live	past	the ladies		there		vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	seem	past	the ladies				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
4	entertain	to-infinitive · progressive	the ladies not said here	Ladies's friends			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus friend=Experiencer
5	think speech: other	past	vizir				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
6	do	would	vizir's master			well property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	not intrude	to-infinitive	vizir's master not said here			on Ladies = lady	vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
8	take	past · perfect · passive		the Caliph	Caliph's head		tree rules
9	see	to-infinitive				for Caliph	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
10	insist speech: other	participle	the vizir not said here				vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
11	obey	gerund · passive	the vizir not said here				vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»

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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