The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 23, sentence 18

He would gladly have avoided her altogether, but they were so near that he must either be prepared to fight or yield to her, so he at once addressed her in a conciliatory tone:

Who acts: goodness · What happens: avoid, be, fight, yield, address · To what, where: Maimoune, conciliatory tone

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 (goodness), 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 avoided	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 avoided	aux
3	gladly	gladly	ADV	_	5 avoided	advmod
4	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 avoided	aux
5	avoided	avoid	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 avoided	obj
7	altogether	altogether	ADV	_	5 avoided	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 near	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 near	cc
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 near	nsubj
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 near	cop
12	so	so	ADV	_	13 near	advmod
13	near	near	ADP	_	5 avoided	obl
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 prepared	mark
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 prepared	nsubj
16	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 prepared	aux
17	either	either	CCONJ	_	19 prepared	cc:preconj
18	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 prepared	cop
19	prepared	prepared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 near	advcl
20	to	to	PART	_	21 fight	mark
21	fight	fight	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 prepared	xcomp
22	or	or	CCONJ	_	23 yield	cc
23	yield	yield	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 fight	conj
24	to	to	ADP	_	25 her	case
25	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 yield	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 addressed	punct
27	so	so	ADV	_	31 addressed	advmod
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 addressed	nsubj
29	at	at	ADP	_	30 once	case
30	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	31 addressed	obl
31	addressed	address	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 avoided	parataxis
32	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 addressed	obj
33	in	in	ADP	_	36 tone	case
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 tone	det
35	conciliatory	conciliatory	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 tone	amod
36	tone	tone	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 addressed	obl
37	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 avoided	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	avoid	would · perfect	goodness	Maimoune			altogether, gladly property	vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent she=Location
2	is	must	goodness				prepared property	tree rules
3	fight	to-infinitive	goodness not said here					vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	yield	infinitive	goodness not said here		Maimoune			vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.pivot»: agent=Agent to she=Pivot
5	address	past	goodness		Maimoune	a conciliatory tone		vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Destination

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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