The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 12, sentence 22

All this while I had refrained from questions, though my curiosity almost seemed to burn a hole in me, but the following day, when we went out to walk, I said to them, "Gentlemen, I must disobey your wishes, for I can keep silence no more.

Who acts: curiosity, we, I, your · What happens: refrain, seem, burn, follow, go out, walk · To what, where: All, questions, hole, Gentlemen, covers, wishes · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (curiosity, we, I, your), 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 refrained	nsubj:pass
2	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	1 All	obj
3	while	while	SCONJ	_	6 refrained	mark
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 refrained	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 refrained	aux
6	refrained	refrain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	from	from	ADP	_	8 questions	case
8	questions	question	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 refrained	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 seemed	punct
10	though	though	SCONJ	_	14 seemed	mark
11	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 curiosity	nmod:poss
12	curiosity	curiosity	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 seemed	nsubj
13	almost	almost	ADV	_	14 seemed	advmod
14	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 refrained	parataxis
15	to	to	PART	_	16 burn	mark
16	burn	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 seemed	xcomp
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 hole	det
18	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 burn	obj
19	in	in	ADP	_	20 me	case
20	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 burn	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 went	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	29 went	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 day	det
24	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	25 day	amod
25	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 went	obl:unmarked
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 day	punct
27	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	29 went	advmod
28	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 went	nsubj
29	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 seemed	conj
30	out	out	ADV	_	29 went	advmod
31	to	to	PART	_	32 walk	mark
32	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 went	advcl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 said	punct
34	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	35 said	nsubj
35	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 seemed	conj
36	to	to	ADP	_	37 them	case
37	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 said	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 Gentlemen	punct
39	"	"	PUNCT	_	40 Gentlemen	punct
40	Gentlemen	gentleman	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 said	obl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 disobey	punct
42	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	44 disobey	nsubj
43	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	44 disobey	aux
44	disobey	disobey	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 said	parataxis
45	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	46 wishes	nmod:poss
46	wishes	wish	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 disobey	obj
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 keep	punct
48	for	for	SCONJ	_	51 keep	mark
49	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	51 keep	nsubj
50	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	51 keep	aux
51	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	44 disobey	conj
52	silence	silence	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 keep	obj
53	no	no	ADV	_	54 more	advmod
54	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	51 keep	advmod
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 refrained	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	refrain	past · perfect · passive		All		questions			tree rules
2	seem	past	my curiosity					almost property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
3	burn	to-infinitive	my curiosity not said here	a hole				in me	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent hole=Theme
4	follow	gerund							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	go out	past	we				day	out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	walk	to-infinitive	we not said here						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	say speech: assert	past	I	Gentlemen	covers = cover				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to they=Recipient clause=Topic
8	disobey in a quote	must	I	your wishes					tree rules
9	keep in a quote	can	I	silence					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent silence=Theme
10	wish in a quote		your						nom wish «feeling intransitive»: 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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