The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 1, sentence 78

But the maiden absolutely refused to attend to her father's words, and at length, in despair, the grand-vizir was obliged to give way, and went sadly to the palace to tell the Sultan that the following evening he would bring him Scheherazade.

Who acts: maiden, Vizir, father · What happens: refuse, not attend, oblige, give, go, tell · To what, where: grand vizir, length, way, palace, Sultan, Scheherazade · 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 (maiden, Vizir, father), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 refused	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 maiden	det
3	maiden	maiden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 refused	nsubj
4	absolutely	absolutely	ADV	_	5 refused	advmod
5	refused	refuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 attend	mark
7	attend	attend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 refused	xcomp
8	to	to	ADP	_	12 words	case
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 father	nmod:poss
10	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 words	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 father	case
12	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 attend	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 obliged	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 obliged	cc
15	at	at	ADP	_	16 length	case
16	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 obliged	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 despair	punct
18	in	in	ADP	_	19 despair	case
19	despair	despair	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 length	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 length	punct
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 vizir	det
22	grand	grand	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 vizir	amod
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 grand	punct
24	vizir	vizir	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 obliged	nsubj:pass
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 obliged	aux:pass
26	obliged	oblige	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 refused	conj
27	to	to	PART	_	28 give	mark
28	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 obliged	xcomp
29	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 give	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 went	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 went	cc
32	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 refused	conj
33	sadly	sadly	ADV	_	32 went	advmod
34	to	to	ADP	_	36 palace	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 palace	det
36	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 went	obl
37	to	to	PART	_	38 tell	mark
38	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 went	advcl
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 Sultan	det
40	Sultan	sultan	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 tell	obj
41	that	that	SCONJ	_	47 bring	mark
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 evening	det
43	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	44 evening	amod
44	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 bring	obl:unmarked
45	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 bring	nsubj
46	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	47 bring	aux
47	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 tell	ccomp
48	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 bring	obj
49	Scheherazade	Scheherazade	PROPN	Number=Sing	47 bring	obj
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 refused	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	refuse	past	the maiden					absolutely property	vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	not attend	to-infinitive	the maiden not said here					to beauty's father's words	vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent to word=Theme
3	oblige	past · passive		the grand vizir		length and despair			vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result
4	give	to-infinitive		way					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Theme
5	go	past	the maiden not said here			the palace		sadly property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to palace=Initial_Location
6	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	the maiden not said here	the Sultan					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent sultan=Recipient clause=Topic
7	follow	gerund							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	bring	would	Vizir	Scheherazade	father		evening		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination scheherazade=Theme
9	word		beauty's father						nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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