The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 7, sentence 10

At length the Caliph could contain his curiosity no longer, and declared that he would compel the ladies to tell them the meaning of their strange conduct.

Who acts: Caliph, lord, Calenders · What happens: contain, declare, compel, tell, mean, conduct · To what, where: curiosity, length, ladies, meaning, strange conduct · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Caliph, lord, Calenders), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 length	case
2	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 contain	obl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Caliph	det
4	Caliph	Caliph	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 contain	nsubj
5	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 contain	aux
6	contain	contain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 curiosity	nmod:poss
8	curiosity	curiosity	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 contain	obj
9	no	no	ADV	_	10 longer	advmod
10	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 contain	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 declared	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 declared	cc
13	declared	declare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 contain	parataxis
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 compel	mark
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 compel	nsubj
16	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 compel	aux
17	compel	compel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 declared	ccomp
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 ladies	det
19	ladies	lady	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 compel	obj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 tell	mark
21	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 compel	advcl
22	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 tell	iobj
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 meaning	det
24	meaning	meaning	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 tell	obj
25	of	of	ADP	_	28 conduct	case
26	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 conduct	nmod:poss
27	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 conduct	amod
28	conduct	conduct	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 meaning	nmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 contain	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	contain	could	the Caliph	lord's curiosity		length	long property	vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot curiosity=Theme
2	declare speech: other	past						vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	compel	would	lord	the ladies				vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lady=Patient
4	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	lord not said here	the meaning of Calenders's strange conduct	ladies = lady			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient meaning=Topic
5	mean			Calenders's strange conduct				nom meaning «communication transitive»: of=patient
6	conduct		Calenders = calender					nom conduct «act transitive»: poss=agent

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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