The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 18, sentence 96
No matter what good advice we gave them, they were caught sooner or later.
Who acts: we · What happens: give, catch · To what, where: good advice, elephants
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we), 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 | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 matter | det |
| 2 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 advice | nsubj |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 advice | nsubj |
| 4 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 advice | amod |
| 5 | advice | advice | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 gave | nsubj |
| 7 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 advice | acl:relcl |
| 8 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 gave | iobj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 caught | punct |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 caught | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 caught | aux:pass |
| 12 | caught | catch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 advice | parataxis |
| 13 | sooner | soon | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 12 caught | advmod |
| 14 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 later | cc |
| 15 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 13 sooner | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 advice | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | we | good advice not said here | elephants = elephant | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | |||
| 2 | catch | past · passive | elephants = elephant | soon property | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
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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