The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 22, sentence 93
He cannot possibly refuse again before so distinguished an assemblage, and in our immediate presence."
Who acts: prince · What happens: not refuse
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 (prince), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 refuse | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 refuse | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 refuse | advmod |
| 4 | possibly | possibly | ADV | _ | 5 refuse | advmod |
| 5 | refuse | refuse | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | again | again | ADV | _ | 5 refuse | advmod |
| 7 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 9 distinguished | mark |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 distinguished | advmod |
| 9 | distinguished | distinguished | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 refuse | advcl |
| 10 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 assemblage | det |
| 11 | assemblage | assemblage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 distinguished | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 presence | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 presence | cc |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 presence | case |
| 15 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 presence | nmod:poss |
| 16 | immediate | immediate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 presence | amod |
| 17 | presence | presence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 distinguished | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 refuse | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 refuse | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not refuse | can | prince | again | possibly property | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=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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