The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 21, sentence 4

My brother, although the old woman was a stranger to him, did not hesitate to do as she wished.

Who acts: old woman, brother, woman · What happens: be, not hesitate, do, wish · To what, where: stranger, him

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old woman, brother, woman), 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	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 brother	nmod:poss
2	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 hesitate	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 stranger	punct
4	although	although	SCONJ	_	10 stranger	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 woman	det
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 woman	amod
7	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 stranger	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 stranger	cop
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 stranger	det
10	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 brother	conj
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 him	case
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 stranger	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 brother	punct
14	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 hesitate	aux
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 hesitate	advmod
16	hesitate	hesitate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
17	to	to	PART	_	18 do	mark
18	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 hesitate	xcomp
19	as	as	SCONJ	_	21 wished	mark
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 wished	nsubj
21	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 do	advcl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 hesitate	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	is a	past	the old woman	a stranger	him = he	tree rules
2	not hesitate	past · do-support	My brother and a stranger			tree rules
3	do	to-infinitive	My brother and a stranger not said here			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	wish	past	woman			vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

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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