The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 19, sentence 97

Now the purveyor's speech had been made in a loud voice, and was heard by all the crowd, and even if he had wished it, the chief of police could not have escaped setting the merchant free.

Who acts: crowd, purveyor · What happens: make, hear, wish, not escape, set, speak · To what, where: speech, loud voice, chief · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (crowd, purveyor), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 speech	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 purveyor	det
3	purveyor	purveyor	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 speech	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 purveyor	case
5	speech	speech	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 made	nsubj:pass
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 made	aux
7	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 made	aux:pass
8	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	in	in	ADP	_	12 voice	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 voice	det
11	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 voice	amod
12	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 made	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 heard	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 heard	cc
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 heard	aux:pass
16	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 made	conj
17	by	by	ADP	_	20 crowd	case
18	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	20 crowd	det:predet
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 crowd	det
20	crowd	crowd	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 heard	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 wished	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 wished	cc
23	even	even	ADV	_	27 wished	advmod
24	if	if	SCONJ	_	27 wished	mark
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 wished	nsubj
26	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 wished	aux
27	wished	wish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 heard	conj
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 wished	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 chief	punct
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 chief	det
31	chief	chief	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 escaped	nsubj:pass
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 police	case
33	police	police	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 chief	nmod
34	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 escaped	aux
35	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	37 escaped	advmod
36	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	37 escaped	aux
37	escaped	escape	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 made	parataxis
38	setting	set	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	37 escaped	xcomp
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 merchant	det
40	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 free	obl:unmarked
41	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 setting	xcomp
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	make	past · perfect · passive		the purveyor's speech	a loud voice		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
2	hear	past · passive	all crowd				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
3	wish a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	purveyor	speech			vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme
4	not escape	could · perfect · passive		the chief of police			tree rules
5	set	gerund				free property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
6	speak		the purveyor				nom speech «communication 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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