The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 9, sentence 93

But he did not hold it for long, for the Sultan fell a victim to an attack of illness, and as he had no sons, the soldiers and priests declared the dervish heir to the throne, to the great joy of all the people.

Who acts: post, Sultan, sons · What happens: not hold, fall, have, declare, attack, joy · To what, where: face, victim, dervish heir, throne, illness, people

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (post, Sultan, sons), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 hold	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 hold	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 hold	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 hold	advmod
5	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 hold	obj
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 long	case
8	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 hold	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 fell	punct
10	for	for	SCONJ	_	13 fell	mark
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Sultan	det
12	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 fell	nsubj
13	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 hold	advcl
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 victim	det
15	victim	victim	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 fell	obj
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 attack	case
17	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 attack	det
18	attack	attack	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 fell	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 illness	case
20	illness	illness	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 attack	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 had	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 had	cc
23	as	as	SCONJ	_	25 had	mark
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 had	nsubj
25	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 fell	conj
26	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	27 sons	det
27	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 declared	nsubj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 soldiers	punct
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 soldiers	det
30	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 sons	conj
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 priests	cc
32	priests	priest	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 sons	conj
33	declared	declare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 had	conj
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 heir	det
35	dervish	dervish	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 heir	compound
36	heir	heir	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 declared	obj
37	to	to	ADP	_	39 throne	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 throne	det
39	throne	throne	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 declared	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 joy	punct
41	to	to	ADP	_	44 joy	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 joy	det
43	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 joy	amod
44	joy	joy	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 declared	obl
45	of	of	ADP	_	48 people	case
46	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	48 people	det:predet
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 people	det
48	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 joy	nmod
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 hold	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	not hold	past · do-support	post	face		for long	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	fall	past	the Sultan	a victim		to a attack of illness result	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient victim=Extent to attack=Result
3	have	past	post				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	declare speech: other	past	no sons and the soldiers and priests	the dervish heir	the throne	to the great joy of all people	vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent heir=Theme to throne=Recipient
5	attack			illness			nom attack «act transitive»: of=patient
6	joy			all people			nom joy «feeling transitive»: of=patient

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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