The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 22, sentence 9

The Barmecide, however, pretended to fill their glasses so often, that my brother feigned that the wine had gone into his head, and struck the Barmecide such a blow on the head, that he fell to the ground.

Who acts: brother, wine, Barmecide · What happens: pretend, fill, feign, go, strike, fall · To what, where: Barmecide, glasses, head

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 (brother, wine, Barmecide), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Barmecide	det
2	Barmecide	barmecide	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pretended	nsubj:pass
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Barmecide	punct
4	however	however	ADV	_	6 pretended	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 however	punct
6	pretended	pretend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 fill	mark
8	fill	fill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 pretended	xcomp
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 glasses	nmod:poss
10	glasses	glass	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 fill	obj
11	so	so	ADV	_	12 often	advmod
12	often	often	ADV	_	8 fill	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 feigned	punct
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 feigned	mark
15	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 brother	nmod:poss
16	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 feigned	nsubj
17	feigned	feign	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 pretended	conj
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 gone	mark
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 wine	det
20	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 gone	nsubj
21	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 gone	aux
22	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 feigned	advcl
23	into	into	ADP	_	25 head	case
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 head	nmod:poss
25	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 gone	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 struck	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 struck	cc
28	struck	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 pretended	parataxis
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 Barmecide	det
30	Barmecide	barmecide	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 struck	obj
31	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	33 blow	det:predet
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 blow	det
33	blow	blow	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 struck	obj
34	on	on	ADP	_	36 head	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 head	det
36	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 struck	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 fell	punct
38	that	that	SCONJ	_	40 fell	mark
39	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 fell	nsubj
40	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 struck	conj
41	to	to	ADP	_	43 ground	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 ground	det
43	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 fell	obl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 pretended	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	pretend	participle · passive		the Barmecide		however property	tree rules
2	fill	to-infinitive		merits's glasses		often property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent glass=Patient
3	feign	past	my brother				vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	go	past · perfect	the wine		Barmecide's head		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into head=Initial_Location
5	strike	past		the Barmecide	the head		vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP ADJP»: agent=Agent barmecide=Patient blow=Result
6	fall	past	Barmecide			to the ground	vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to ground=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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