The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 8, sentence 27

The calender, however, begged leave to stay and to hear the histories of his two friends and of the three other persons of the company, which he was allowed to do.

Who acts: company · What happens: beg, stay, hear, allow, do · To what, where: calender, histories, company

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (company), 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 calender	det
2	calender	calendar	NOUN	Number=Sing Typo=Yes	6 begged	nsubj:pass
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 calender	punct
4	however	however	ADV	_	6 begged	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 however	punct
6	begged	beg	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	leave	leave	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 begged	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 stay	mark
9	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 leave	acl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 hear	cc
11	to	to	PART	_	12 hear	mark
12	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 stay	conj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 histories	det
14	histories	history	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 hear	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	18 friends	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 friends	nmod:poss
17	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 friends	nummod
18	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 histories	nmod
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 persons	cc
20	of	of	ADP	_	24 persons	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 persons	det
22	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 persons	nummod
23	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 persons	amod
24	persons	person	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 friends	conj
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 company	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 company	det
27	company	company	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 persons	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 allowed	punct
29	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 allowed	nsubj:pass
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 allowed	nsubj:pass
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 allowed	aux:pass
32	allowed	allow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 company	acl:relcl
33	to	to	PART	_	34 do	mark
34	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 allowed	xcomp
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 begged	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	beg speech: request	participle · passive		the calender	however property	tree rules
2	stay	to-infinitive				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	hear	to-infinitive		the histories of Zobeida's two friends and the three other persons of the company		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer history=Stimulus
4	allow	past · passive		the company		vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
5	do not said to happen	to-infinitive	the company not said here			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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