The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 21, sentence 74

My brother tried to bribe them to let him off, but far from listening to him they tied his hands, and forced him to walk between them to the presence of the judge.

Who acts: brother, Alnaschar · What happens: try, bribe, let off, listen, tie, force · To what, where: brother, Alnaschar, hands

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 (brother, Alnaschar), 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	3 tried	nsubj
3	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 bribe	mark
5	bribe	bribe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 tried	xcomp
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 bribe	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 let	mark
8	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 bribe	advcl
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 let	obj
10	off	off	ADP	_	8 let	compound:prt
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 tied	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 tied	cc
13	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	15 listening	advmod
14	from	from	SCONJ	_	15 listening	mark
15	listening	listen	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 tied	advcl
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 him	case
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 listening	obl
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 tied	nsubj
19	tied	tie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 tried	conj
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 hands	nmod:poss
21	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 tied	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 forced	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 forced	cc
24	forced	force	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 tried	conj
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 forced	obj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 walk	mark
27	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 forced	xcomp
28	between	between	ADP	_	29 them	case
29	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 walk	obl
30	to	to	ADP	_	32 presence	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 presence	det
32	presence	presence	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 walk	obl
33	of	of	ADP	_	35 judge	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 judge	det
35	judge	judge	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 presence	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 tried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	try	past	My brother				vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	bribe not said to happen	to-infinitive	My brother not said here	brother			vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
3	let off	to-infinitive	My brother not said here	Alnaschar			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
4	listen	gerund	brother not said here		Alnaschar	far property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to he=Theme
5	tie	past	brother	Alnaschar's hands			vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient
6	force	past	My brother not said here	Alnaschar			vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
7	walk	to-infinitive	Alnaschar not said here			between brother; to the presence of the judge result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to presence=Result

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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