The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 23, sentence 104

So saying she shook Camaralzaman so violently that nothing but the spells of Maimoune could have prevented his waking.

Who acts: lady, Camaralzaman · What happens: say, shake, prevent, spell, wake · To what, where: Camaralzaman, nothing, Maimoune · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lady, Camaralzaman), 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	So	so	ADV	_	2 saying	advmod
2	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 shook	advcl
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 shook	nsubj
4	shook	shake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	Camaralzaman	Camaralzaman	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 shook	obj
6	so	so	ADV	_	7 violently	advmod
7	violently	violently	ADV	_	4 shook	advmod
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 prevented	mark
9	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	17 prevented	nsubj:pass
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 spells	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 spells	det
12	spells	spell	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 nothing	conj
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 Maimoune	case
14	Maimoune	Maimoune	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 spells	nmod
15	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 prevented	aux
16	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 prevented	aux
17	prevented	prevent	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 shook	advcl
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 waking	nmod:poss
19	waking	waking	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 prevented	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 shook	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	gerund	lady not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	shake	past	lady	Camaralzaman	violently property	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent camaralzaman=Patient
3	prevent	could · perfect · passive		nothing		tree rules
4	spell			Maimoune		nom spell «state transitive»: of=patient
5	wake		Camaralzaman			nom waking «cognition 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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