The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 1, sentence 21

The people of Asia, Arabia, and Persia told them in their own way, not for children, but for grown-up people.

Who acts: people · What happens: tell, grow up · To what, where: grown people, own way · Speech: someone speaks here

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: who acts (people), 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 people	det
2	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 told	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 Asia	case
4	Asia	Asia	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 people	nmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 Arabia	punct
6	Arabia	Arabia	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Asia	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 told	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 told	cc
9	Persia	Persia	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 told	nsubj
10	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 told	iobj
12	in	in	ADP	_	15 way	case
13	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 way	nmod:poss
14	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 way	amod
15	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 told	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 children	punct
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 children	advmod
18	for	for	ADP	_	19 children	case
19	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 way	appos
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 people	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 people	cc
22	for	for	ADP	_	26 people	case
23	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 people	amod
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	25 up	punct
25	up	up	ADP	_	23 grown	compound:prt
26	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 told	iobj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	the people of Asia and Arabia		grown people	People's own way			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient people=Topic
2	grow up	participle							vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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