The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 16, sentence 51

Here I made one more frantic effort to excite the pity of the king and those who stood by, hoping to save myself even at this last moment, but it was of no avail.

Who acts: I, pity · What happens: make, excite, stand by, hope, save, be · To what, where: one more frantic effort, pity, myself, king

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, pity), 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	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 made	advmod
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 made	nsubj
3	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 effort	nummod
5	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 effort	amod
6	frantic	frantic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 effort	amod
7	effort	effort	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 excite	mark
9	excite	excite	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 made	advcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 pity	det
11	pity	pity	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 excite	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 king	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 king	det
14	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 pity	nmod
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 those	cc
16	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	14 king	nmod
17	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 stood	nsubj
18	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 those	acl:relcl
19	by	by	ADP	_	18 stood	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 hoping	punct
21	hoping	hope	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 made	advcl
22	to	to	PART	_	23 save	mark
23	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 hoping	xcomp
24	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	23 save	obj
25	even	even	ADV	_	29 moment	advmod
26	at	at	ADP	_	29 moment	case
27	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	29 moment	det
28	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 moment	amod
29	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 save	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 avail	punct
31	but	but	CCONJ	_	36 avail	cc
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 avail	nsubj
33	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 avail	cop
34	of	of	ADP	_	36 avail	case
35	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	36 avail	det
36	avail	avail	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	I	one more frantic effort	here			vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent effort=Product
2	excite	to-infinitive	I not said here	the pity of the king those				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus pity=Experiencer
3	stand by	past						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	hope	gerund	I not said here					vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5	save not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here	myself		moment		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent myself=Theme
6	is	past	pity				of no avail	tree rules
7	pity			the king those				nom pity «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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