The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 1, sentence 32

People in France and England knew almost nothing about "The Arabian Nights" till the reigns of Queen Anne and George I., when they were translated into French by Monsieur Galland.

Who acts: People, Monsieur · What happens: know, translate · To what, where: nothing, People, French

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, Monsieur), 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	People	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 knew	nsubj
2	in	in	ADP	_	3 France	case
3	France	France	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 People	nmod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 England	cc
5	England	England	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 France	conj
6	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	almost	almost	ADV	_	8 nothing	advmod
8	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	6 knew	obj
9	about	about	ADP	_	13 Nights	case
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 Nights	punct
11	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Nights	det
12	Arabian	Arabian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 Nights	amod
13	Nights	Night	PROPN	Number=Plur	8 nothing	nmod
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 Nights	punct
15	till	till	ADP	_	17 reigns	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 reigns	det
17	reigns	reign	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 knew	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 Anne	case
19	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 Anne	compound
20	Anne	Anne	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 reigns	nmod
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 George	cc
22	George	George	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 Anne	conj
23	I.	I.	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 George	flat
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 translated	punct
25	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	28 translated	advmod
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 translated	nsubj:pass
27	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 translated	aux:pass
28	translated	translate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 knew	conj
29	into	into	ADP	_	30 French	case
30	French	French	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 translated	obl
31	by	by	ADP	_	32 Monsieur	case
32	Monsieur	Monsieur	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 translated	obl:agent
33	Galland	Galland	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 Monsieur	flat
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 knew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	past	People in France and England	nothing			about the Arabian Nights; till the reigns of Queen Anne and George		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus
2	translate	past · passive	Monsieur	People				into French result	vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent subject=Patient into french=Result

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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