The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 13, sentence 59

Indeed, the sailors assured me that often at night the playing of timbals could be heard upon it.

Who acts: sailors, timbals · What happens: assure, hear, play · To what, where: me, playing

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 (sailors, timbals), 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	_	5 assured	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Indeed	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sailors	det
4	sailors	sailor	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 assured	nsubj
5	assured	assure	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 assured	iobj
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 heard	obj
8	often	often	ADV	_	17 heard	advmod
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 night	case
10	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 heard	obl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 playing	det
12	playing	playing	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 heard	nsubj:pass
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 timbals	case
14	timbals	timbal	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 playing	nmod
15	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 heard	aux
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 heard	aux:pass
17	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 assured	ccomp
18	upon	upon	ADP	_	19 it	case
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 heard	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 assured	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	assure	past	the sailors		me		indeed property	vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP.recipient that S»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic
2	hear	could · passive		the playing of timbals		night	upon Sailor; often property	tree rules
3	play		timbals					nom playing «act intransitive»: of=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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