The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 9, sentence 96

The vizir obeyed, and when the envious man was brought before the Sultan, the monarch said to him, "My friend, I am delighted to see you again."

Who acts: vizir, monarch · What happens: obey, bring, say, be, see · To what, where: envious man, Sultan · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (vizir, monarch), 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	3 obeyed	nsubj
3	obeyed	obey	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 brought	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 brought	cc
6	when	when	SCONJ	_	11 brought	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 man	det
8	envious	envious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 man	amod
9	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 brought	nsubj:pass
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 brought	aux:pass
11	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 obeyed	conj
12	before	before	ADP	_	14 Sultan	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Sultan	det
14	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 brought	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 said	punct
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 monarch	det
17	monarch	monarch	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 said	nsubj
18	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 Sultan	acl:relcl
19	to	to	ADP	_	20 him	case
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 said	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 friend	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	24 friend	punct
23	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 friend	nmod:poss
24	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 Sultan	appos
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 delighted	punct
26	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 delighted	nsubj
27	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 delighted	cop
28	delighted	delighted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 obeyed	conj
29	to	to	PART	_	30 see	mark
30	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 delighted	advcl
31	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	30 see	obj
32	again	again	ADV	_	30 see	advmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 obeyed	punct
34	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 obeyed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	obey	past	the vizir					vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	bring	past · passive		the envious man		before the Sultan		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme before sultan=Destination
3	say speech: assert	past	the monarch	the Sultan not said here	Sultan			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent sultan=Topic to he=Recipient
4	is in a quote	present	the monarch = monarch				delighted property	tree rules
5	see in a quote	to-infinitive	the monarch = monarch not said here	Sultan		again		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus

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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