The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 1, sentence 18

These old stories, never forgotten, were taken down in writing in different ages, but mostly in this century, in all sorts of languages.

What happens: not forget, take down, sort · To what, where: old stories, writing, languages

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	These	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	3 stories	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 stories	amod
3	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 taken	nsubj:pass
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 forgotten	punct
5	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 forgotten	advmod
6	forgotten	forget	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 stories	acl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 stories	punct
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 taken	aux:pass
9	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	down	down	ADP	_	9 taken	compound:prt
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 writing	case
12	writing	writing	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 taken	obl
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 ages	case
14	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 ages	amod
15	ages	age	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 taken	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 century	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 century	cc
18	mostly	mostly	ADV	_	21 century	advmod
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 century	case
20	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	21 century	det
21	century	century	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 taken	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 sorts	punct
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 sorts	case
24	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	25 sorts	det
25	sorts	sort	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 taken	conj
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 languages	case
27	languages	language	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 sorts	nmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 taken	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	not forget	participle	this old stories not said here			tree rules
2	take down	past · passive	this old stories	writing	in different ages; century	vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in writing=Destination
3	sort		languages			nom sort «cognition 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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