The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 20, sentence 70

But I shall pay no more heed to my mother-in-law's words than I did to those of the women.

Who acts: I, law · What happens: pay, do, word · To what, where: more heed

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, law), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 pay	cc
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 pay	nsubj
3	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 pay	aux
4	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	no	no	ADV	_	6 more	advmod
6	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 heed	amod
7	heed	heed	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pay	obj
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 mother	case
9	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 mother	nmod:poss
10	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pay	obl
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 words	punct
12	in	in	ADP	_	16 words	case
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 in	punct
14	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 words	nmod:poss
15	's	's	PART	_	14 law	case
16	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 mother	conj
17	than	than	SCONJ	_	19 did	mark
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 did	nsubj
19	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 pay	advcl
20	to	to	ADP	_	21 those	case
21	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	19 did	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 women	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 women	det
24	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 those	nmod
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 pay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	pay	shall	I	more heed	to my mother and law's words	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heed=Asset
2	do	past	I		to those	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	word		law			nom word «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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