The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 1, sentence 38

The stories were translated from French into all languages, and only Bishop Atterbury complained that the tales were not likely to be true, and had no moral.

Who acts: Bishop, tales · What happens: translate, complain, not be, be, have · To what, where: stories, French, moral · 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 (Bishop, tales), 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 stories	det
2	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 translated	nsubj:pass
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 translated	aux:pass
4	translated	translate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	6 French	case
6	French	French	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 translated	obl
7	into	into	ADP	_	9 languages	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 languages	det
9	languages	language	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 translated	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 complained	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 complained	cc
12	only	only	ADV	_	13 Bishop	advmod
13	Bishop	Bishop	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 complained	nsubj
14	Atterbury	Atterbury	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Bishop	flat
15	complained	complain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 translated	parataxis
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 likely	mark
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 tales	det
18	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 likely	nsubj
19	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 likely	cop
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 likely	advmod
21	likely	likely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 complained	ccomp
22	to	to	PART	_	24 true	mark
23	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	24 true	cop
24	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 likely	xcomp
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 had	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 had	cc
27	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 complained	conj
28	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	29 moral	det
29	moral	moral	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 had	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 translated	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	translate	past · passive		the stories	French	into all languages result	vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V NP.patient PP.material PP.result»: subject=Patient from french=Initial_State into language=Result
2	complain speech: other	past	Bishop				vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	not is	past	the tales			likely property	tree rules
4	is	to-infinitive	the tales not said here			true property	tree rules
5	have	past	Bishop not said here	no moral			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent moral=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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