The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 10, sentence 21

No more was said, and I took the pen and wrote the six sorts of writing in use among the Arabs, and each sort contained an original verse or couplet, in praise of the Sultan.

Who acts: I, sort · What happens: not say, take, write, contain, sort, praise · To what, where: more, pen, six sorts, use, original verse, praise · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, sort), 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	No	no	ADV	_	4 said	advmod
2	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 said	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 said	aux:pass
4	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 took	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 took	cc
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 took	nsubj
8	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 said	ccomp
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 pen	det
10	pen	pen	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 took	obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 wrote	cc
12	wrote	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 took	conj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 sorts	det
14	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 sorts	nummod
15	sorts	sort	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 wrote	obj
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 writing	case
17	writing	writing	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 sorts	nmod
18	in	in	ADP	_	19 use	case
19	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 wrote	obl
20	among	among	ADP	_	22 Arabs	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 Arabs	det
22	Arabs	Arab	PROPN	Number=Plur	12 wrote	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 contained	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 contained	cc
25	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	26 sort	det
26	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 contained	nsubj
27	contained	contain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 took	conj
28	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 verse	det
29	original	original	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 verse	amod
30	verse	verse	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 contained	obj
31	or	or	CCONJ	_	32 couplet	cc
32	couplet	couplet	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 verse	conj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 praise	punct
34	in	in	ADP	_	35 praise	case
35	praise	praise	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 contained	obl
36	of	of	ADP	_	38 Sultan	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 Sultan	det
38	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 praise	nmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not say speech: assert	past · passive		more			tree rules
2	take	past	I	the pen			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pen=Theme
3	write	past	I not said here	the six sorts of writing	use	among the Arabs	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent sort=Theme in use=Destination
4	contain	past	each sort	a original verse or couplet	praise of the Sultan		vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent verse=Value in praise=Location
5	sort			writing			nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient
6	praise			the Sultan			nom praise «communication transitive»: of=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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