The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 1, sentence 48

Indeed, after ten years, during which this state of things had not ceased to trouble him, Schahriar cut off the country of Great Tartary from the Persian Empire and made his brother king.

Who acts: Schahriar · What happens: not cease, cut off, make · To what, where: state, country, brother king

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 (Schahriar), 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	Indeed	indeed	ADV	_	21 cut	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Indeed	punct
3	after	after	ADP	_	5 years	case
4	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 years	nummod
5	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 cut	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 ceased	punct
7	during	during	ADP	_	8 which	case
8	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 ceased	obl
9	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 state	det
10	state	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 ceased	nsubj:pass
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 things	case
12	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 state	nmod
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 ceased	aux
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 ceased	advmod
15	ceased	cease	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 years	acl:relcl
16	to	to	PART	_	17 trouble	mark
17	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 ceased	obj
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 trouble	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 years	punct
20	Schahriar	Schahriar	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 cut	nsubj
21	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
22	off	off	ADP	_	24 country	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 country	det
24	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 cut	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 Tartary	case
26	Great	Great	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 Tartary	flat
27	Tartary	Tartary	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 country	nmod
28	from	from	ADP	_	31 Empire	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 Empire	det
30	Persian	Persian	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 Empire	compound
31	Empire	Empire	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 Tartary	nmod
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 made	cc
33	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 cut	conj
34	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 king	nmod:poss
35	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 king	compound
36	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 made	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 cut	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	not cease	past · perfect · passive		this state of things	during ten years		tree rules
2	cut off	past	Schahriar	the country of Great Tartary from the Persian Empire	year	indeed property	vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector country=Eventuality
3	make	past	Schahriar not said here	race's brother king			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset king=Product

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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