The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 22, sentence 72

As usual he talked over his plans with his grand-vizir, who, though he did not approve the idea, would not state all his objections.

Who acts: usual, grand vizir, man · What happens: talk, not approve, not state, plan, object · To what, where: plans, idea, objections

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (usual, grand vizir, 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	4 talked	mark
2	usual	usual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 talked	nsubj
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 talked	nsubj
4	talked	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	over	over	ADP	_	7 plans	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 plans	nmod:poss
7	plans	plan	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 talked	obl
8	with	with	ADP	_	12 vizir	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 vizir	nmod:poss
10	grand	grand	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 vizir	amod
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 grand	punct
12	vizir	vizir	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 talked	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 approve	punct
14	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 approve	nsubj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 approve	punct
16	though	though	SCONJ	_	20 approve	mark
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 approve	nsubj
18	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 approve	aux
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 approve	advmod
20	approve	approve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 vizir	conj
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 idea	det
22	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 approve	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 state	punct
24	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 state	aux
25	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 state	advmod
26	state	state	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 vizir	conj
27	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	29 objections	det:predet
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 objections	nmod:poss
29	objections	objection	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 state	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 talked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	talk	past	usual		man's plans	with man's grand vizir	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with vizir=Co-Agent
2	not approve	past · do-support	man's grand vizir	the idea			vn allow-64.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent idea=Beneficiary
3	not state speech: other	would	usual not said here	man's objections			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent objection=Topic
4	plan		man				nom plan «cognition transitive»: poss=agent
5	object		man				nom objection «communication intransitive»: 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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