The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 7, sentence 86

I asked the officers in command the reason of this strange behaviour, and was horrified to learn that the army had mutinied and put to death the king, my father, and had placed the grand-vizir on the throne.

Who acts: I · What happens: ask, horrify, learn, mutiny, put, place · To what, where: officers, command, army, king, grand vizir, throne · 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 (I), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 asked	nsubj
2	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 officers	det
4	officers	officer	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 asked	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 command	case
6	command	command	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 asked	obl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 reason	det
8	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 asked	obl:unmarked
9	of	of	ADP	_	12 behaviour	case
10	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 behaviour	det
11	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 behaviour	amod
12	behaviour	behaviour	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 reason	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 horrified	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 horrified	cc
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 horrified	aux:pass
16	horrified	horrify	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 asked	parataxis
17	to	to	PART	_	18 learn	mark
18	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 horrified	advcl
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 mutinied	mark
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 army	det
21	army	army	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 mutinied	nsubj:pass
22	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 mutinied	aux
23	mutinied	mutiny	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 learn	ccomp
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 put	cc
25	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 mutinied	conj
26	to	to	ADP	_	27 death	case
27	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 put	obl
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 king	det
29	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 put	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 father	punct
31	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 father	nmod:poss
32	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 mutinied	advcl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 placed	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 placed	cc
35	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 placed	aux
36	placed	place	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 asked	conj
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 vizir	det
38	grand	grand	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 vizir	amod
39	-	-	PUNCT	_	38 grand	punct
40	vizir	vizir	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 placed	obj
41	on	on	ADP	_	43 throne	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 throne	det
43	throne	throne	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 vizir	nmod
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	I	the officers		command	the reason of this strange behaviour obl:unmarked	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent officer=Recipient
2	horrify	past · passive						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»
3	learn	to-infinitive						vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	mutiny	past · perfect · passive		the army				tree rules
5	put	participle			the king		to death	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent king=Goal
6	place	past · perfect	I not said here	the grand vizir		the throne		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent vizir=Theme on throne=Destination

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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