The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 22, sentence 8

To this my brother at first objected, declaring that it was forbidden; but on the Barmecide insisting that it was out of the question that he should drink by himself, he consented to take a little.

Who acts: Barmecide, wine · What happens: object, declare, forbid, insist, be, drink · To what, where: brother, wine, question, Barmecide, little · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Barmecide, wine), 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	To	to	ADP	_	4 brother	case
2	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 brother	det
3	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 brother	nmod:poss
4	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 objected	obl
5	at	at	SCONJ	_	7 objected	mark
6	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	7 objected	advmod
7	objected	object	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 declaring	punct
9	declaring	declare	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 objected	advcl
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 forbidden	mark
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 forbidden	nsubj:pass
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 forbidden	aux:pass
13	forbidden	forbid	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 declaring	ccomp
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	35 consented	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	35 consented	cc
16	on	on	ADP	_	18 Barmecide	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Barmecide	det
18	Barmecide	barmecide	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 consented	obl
19	insisting	insist	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 Barmecide	acl
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 question	mark
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 question	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 question	cop
23	out	out	ADP	_	26 question	case
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 question	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 question	det
26	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 insisting	ccomp
27	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 drink	mark
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 drink	nsubj
29	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 drink	aux
30	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 question	acl
31	by	by	ADP	_	32 himself	case
32	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	30 drink	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 Barmecide	punct
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 consented	nsubj
35	consented	consent	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 objected	conj
36	to	to	PART	_	37 take	mark
37	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 consented	xcomp
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 little	det
39	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 take	obj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 objected	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	object speech: other	participle			my brother		first property	vn complain-37.8 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to brother=Recipient
2	declare speech: other	gerund						vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	forbid	past · passive		wine				vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
4	insist speech: other	gerund	the Barmecide not said here					vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
5	is	past	wine			the question		tree rules
6	drink	should	Barmecide	the question not said here			by Barmecide	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent question=Patient
7	consent	past	Barmecide			the Barmecide		vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
8	take	to-infinitive	Barmecide not said here	a little				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent little=Theme

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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