The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 13, sentence 18

Hindbad was not a little surprised at this summons, and feared that his unguarded words might have drawn upon him the displeasure of Sindbad, so he tried to excuse himself upon the pretext that he could not leave the burden which had been entrusted to him in the street.

Who acts: Hindbad, Sindbad · What happens: not be, fear, draw, try, excuse, not leave · To what, where: summons, unguarded words, Sindbad, burden, street · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hindbad, Sindbad), 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	Hindbad	Hindbad	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 surprised	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 surprised	cop
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 surprised	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 little	det
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 surprised	obl:unmarked
6	surprised	surprised	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 summons	case
8	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 summons	det
9	summons	summon	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 surprised	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 feared	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 feared	cc
12	feared	fear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 surprised	advcl
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 drawn	mark
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 words	nmod:poss
15	unguarded	unguarded	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 words	amod
16	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 drawn	nsubj:pass
17	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 drawn	aux
18	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 drawn	aux
19	drawn	draw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 feared	ccomp
20	upon	upon	ADP	_	21 him	case
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 drawn	obl
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 displeasure	det
23	displeasure	displeasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 drawn	obj
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 Sindbad	case
25	Sindbad	Sindbad	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 displeasure	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 tried	punct
27	so	so	ADV	_	29 tried	advmod
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 tried	nsubj
29	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 surprised	advcl
30	to	to	PART	_	31 excuse	mark
31	excuse	excuse	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 tried	xcomp
32	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	31 excuse	obj
33	upon	upon	ADP	_	35 pretext	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 pretext	det
35	pretext	pretext	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 excuse	obl
36	that	that	SCONJ	_	40 leave	mark
37	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 leave	nsubj
38	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	40 leave	aux
39	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	40 leave	advmod
40	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 excuse	advcl
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 burden	det
42	burden	burden	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 leave	obj
43	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	46 entrusted	nsubj:pass
44	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 entrusted	aux
45	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	46 entrusted	aux:pass
46	entrusted	entrust	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	42 burden	acl:relcl
47	to	to	ADP	_	48 him	case
48	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 entrusted	obl
49	in	in	ADP	_	51 street	case
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 street	det
51	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 entrusted	obl
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 surprised	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	not is	past	Hindbad			this summons	a little obl:unmarked; surprised property	tree rules
2	fear	past	Hindbad not said here					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	draw	might · perfect · passive		Hindbad's unguarded words			upon Hindbad	vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary displeasure=Result
4	try	past	Sindbad					vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	excuse not said to happen	to-infinitive	Sindbad not said here	Sindbad			upon the pretext	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme
6	not leave	could	Sindbad	the burden				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent burden=Theme
7	entrust	past · perfect · passive		the burden	Sindbad	the street		vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to he=Recipient
8	word		Hindbad					nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent
9	displease			Sindbad				nom displeasure «feeling 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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