The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 19, sentence 30

In order to prevent this dreadful calamity they both set about inventing some plan which would throw suspicion on some one else, and at last they made up their minds that they could do no better than select a Jewish doctor who lived close by as the author of the crime.

Who acts: police, plan, Jewish doctor · What happens: prevent, set, invent, throw, make up, select · To what, where: dreadful calamity, plan, suspicion, minds, last, Jewish doctor

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (police, plan, Jewish doctor), 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	In	in	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	4 prevent	mark
2	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 In	fixed
3	to	to	PART	_	4 prevent	mark
4	prevent	prevent	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 calamity	det
6	dreadful	dreadful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 calamity	amod
7	calamity	calamity	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 prevent	obj
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 set	nsubj
9	both	both	ADV	_	10 set	advmod
10	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 calamity	acl:relcl
11	about	about	SCONJ	_	12 inventing	mark
12	inventing	invent	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 set	advcl
13	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	14 plan	det
14	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 inventing	obj
15	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 throw	nsubj
16	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 throw	aux
17	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 plan	acl:relcl
18	suspicion	suspicion	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 throw	obj
19	on	on	ADP	_	21 one	case
20	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	21 one	det
21	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 throw	obl
22	else	else	ADV	_	17 throw	advmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 made	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 made	cc
25	at	at	ADP	_	26 last	case
26	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 made	obl
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 made	nsubj
28	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 prevent	advcl
29	up	up	ADP	_	28 made	compound:prt
30	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 minds	nmod:poss
31	minds	mind	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 made	obj
32	that	that	SCONJ	_	37 better	mark
33	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 better	nsubj
34	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 better	aux
35	do	do	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	37 better	aux
36	no	no	ADV	_	37 better	advmod
37	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	28 made	xcomp
38	than	than	SCONJ	_	39 select	mark
39	select	select	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 better	csubj
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 doctor	det
41	Jewish	Jewish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 doctor	amod
42	doctor	doctor	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 select	obj
43	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	44 lived	nsubj
44	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 doctor	acl:relcl
45	close	close	ADV	Degree=Pos	44 lived	advmod
46	by	by	ADP	_	49 author	case
47	as	as	ADP	_	49 author	case
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 author	det
49	author	author	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 lived	obl
50	of	of	ADP	_	52 crime	case
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 crime	det
52	crime	crime	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 author	nmod
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 prevent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	prevent	to-infinitive		this dreadful calamity			vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer calamity=Theme
2	set	present	police	this dreadful calamity not said here		both property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient calamity=Result
3	invent	gerund	police not said here	some plan			vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plan=Result
4	throw	would	some plan	suspicion		on some one; else property	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent suspicion=Theme on one=Destination
5	make up	past	police	police's minds	last	good property	vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mind=Pivot
6	select	infinitive		a Jewish doctor			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent doctor=Theme
7	live	past	a Jewish doctor			by the author of the crime; close property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by author=Location
8	mind		police				nom mind «cognition transitive»: 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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