The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 8, sentence 34

Now the Sultan of the Indies, curious to see a young prince with such strange tastes, sent an ambassador to my father, laden with rich presents, and a warm invitation to visit his court.

Who acts: Sultan · What happens: see, send, lade, visit · To what, where: young prince, ambassador, father, court

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 (Sultan), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 Sultan	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Sultan	det
3	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 sent	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 Indies	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Indies	det
6	Indies	Indy	PROPN	Number=Plur	3 Sultan	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 curious	punct
8	curious	curious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Sultan	parataxis
9	to	to	PART	_	10 see	mark
10	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 curious	advcl
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 prince	det
12	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 prince	amod
13	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 see	obj
14	with	with	ADP	_	17 tastes	case
15	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 tastes	amod
16	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 tastes	amod
17	tastes	taste	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 prince	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 Sultan	punct
19	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
20	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 ambassador	det
21	ambassador	ambassador	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 sent	obj
22	to	to	ADP	_	24 father	case
23	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 father	nmod:poss
24	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 sent	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 laden	punct
26	laden	lade	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 father	acl
27	with	with	ADP	_	29 presents	case
28	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 presents	amod
29	presents	present	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 laden	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 invitation	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 invitation	cc
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 invitation	det
33	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 invitation	amod
34	invitation	invitation	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 sent	parataxis
35	to	to	PART	_	36 visit	mark
36	visit	visit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 invitation	acl
37	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 court	nmod:poss
38	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 visit	obj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 sent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	see	to-infinitive	the Sultan of the Indies not said here	a young prince		with such strange tastes	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer prince=Stimulus
2	send	past	the Sultan of the Indies	a ambassador	my father		vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent ambassador=Theme to father=Destination
3	lade	participle		my father not said here		with rich presents	tree rules
4	visit	to-infinitive	the Sultan of the Indies not said here	prince's court			vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent court=Co-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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