The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 7, sentence 11

The vizir, foreseeing what would happen, implored him to remember the condition their hostesses had imposed, and added in a whisper that if his Highness would only wait till morning he could as Caliph summon the ladies to appear before him.

Who acts: vizir, hostesses, Highness · What happens: foresee, happen, implore, remember, impose, add · To what, where: lord, condition, whisper, ladies

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 (vizir, hostesses, Highness), 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	9 implored	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 foreseeing	punct
4	foreseeing	foresee	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 vizir	acl
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 happen	nsubj
6	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 happen	aux
7	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 foreseeing	ccomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 vizir	punct
9	implored	implore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 implored	obj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 remember	mark
12	remember	remember	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 implored	xcomp
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 condition	det
14	condition	condition	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 remember	obj
15	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 hostesses	nmod:poss
16	hostesses	hostess	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 imposed	nsubj
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 imposed	aux
18	imposed	impose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 condition	acl:relcl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 added	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 added	cc
21	added	add	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	38 summon	advcl
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 whisper	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 whisper	det
24	whisper	whisper	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 added	obl
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 wait	mark
26	if	if	SCONJ	_	31 wait	mark
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 Highness	nmod:poss
28	Highness	highness	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 wait	nsubj
29	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 wait	aux
30	only	only	ADV	_	31 wait	advmod
31	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 summon	advcl
32	till	till	ADP	_	33 morning	case
33	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 wait	obl
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 could	nsubj
35	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 morning	acl:relcl
36	as	as	ADP	_	37 Caliph	case
37	Caliph	Caliph	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 wait	obl
38	summon	summon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 implored	parataxis
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 ladies	det
40	ladies	lady	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 summon	obj
41	to	to	PART	_	42 appear	mark
42	appear	appear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 summon	advcl
43	before	before	ADP	_	44 him	case
44	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 appear	obl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 implored	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	foresee	gerund	the vizir not said here						vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	happen	would							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	implore	past	the vizir	lord					vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
4	remember	to-infinitive	the vizir not said here	the condition					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent condition=Theme
5	impose	past · perfect	Calenders's hostesses	the condition not said here					vn enforce-63 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent condition=Theme
6	add speech: assert	participle				a whisper			vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient
7	wait a condition, not said to happen	would	lord's Highness				morning	as Caliph	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	summon	present			the ladies				vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lady=Recipient
9	appear	to-infinitive					before lord		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before he=Location

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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