The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 21, sentence 94
They did not refuse, but told him politely to go in, and speak to the master himself.
Who acts: brother · What happens: not refuse, tell, go in, speak · To what, where: Barmecide · Speech: someone speaks here
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), 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 | 4 refuse | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 refuse | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 refuse | advmod |
| 4 | refuse | refuse | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 told | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 told | cc |
| 7 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 refuse | conj |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 told | iobj |
| 9 | politely | politely | ADV | _ | 7 told | advmod |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 go | mark |
| 11 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 told | xcomp |
| 12 | in | in | ADV | _ | 11 go | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 speak | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 speak | cc |
| 15 | speak | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 refuse | conj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 master | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 master | det |
| 18 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 speak | obl |
| 19 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 18 master | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 refuse | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not refuse | past · do-support | brother | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | brother not said here | Barmecide | politely property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 3 | go in not said to happen | to-infinitive | brother not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | speak speech: other | infinitive | brother not said here | to the master Barmecide | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to master=Co-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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