The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 2, sentence 68

They told him the story, and he also resolved to see what would pass between the genius and the merchant, so waited with the rest.

Who acts: others, man · What happens: tell, resolve, see, pass, wait · To what, where: story, man, genius · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (others, man), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 told	nsubj
2	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 told	iobj
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 story	det
5	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 told	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 resolved	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 resolved	cc
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 resolved	nsubj
9	also	also	ADV	_	10 resolved	advmod
10	resolved	resolve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 told	parataxis
11	to	to	PART	_	12 see	mark
12	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 resolved	xcomp
13	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	15 pass	obj
14	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 pass	aux
15	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 see	ccomp
16	between	between	ADP	_	18 genius	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 genius	det
18	genius	genius	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 pass	obl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 merchant	cc
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 merchant	det
21	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 genius	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 waited	punct
23	so	so	ADV	_	24 waited	advmod
24	waited	wait	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 resolved	conj
25	with	with	ADP	_	27 rest	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 rest	det
27	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 waited	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	others = other	the story	man			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient story=Topic
2	resolve	past	man					tree rules
3	see	to-infinitive	man not said here					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	pass	would				the genius and the merchant		vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent what=Theme between genius=Destination
5	wait	participle	man not said here				with the rest	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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