The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 23, sentence 3

These and similar conversations proved to the Sultan how useless it was to argue with his son, and the year elapsed without bringing any change in the prince's ideas.

Who acts: similar conversations, Sultan · What happens: prove, be, argue, elapse, bring · To what, where: change, ideas

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 (similar conversations, Sultan), 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	These	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	4 conversations	det
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 similar	cc
3	similar	similar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 conversations	amod
4	conversations	conversation	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 proved	nsubj
5	proved	prove	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 Sultan	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Sultan	det
8	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 proved	obl
9	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	10 useless	advmod
10	useless	useless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 proved	ccomp
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 useless	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 useless	cop
13	to	to	PART	_	14 argue	mark
14	argue	argue	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 was	xcomp
15	with	with	ADP	_	17 son	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 son	nmod:poss
17	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 argue	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 elapsed	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 elapsed	cc
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 year	det
21	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 elapsed	obl:unmarked
22	elapsed	elapse	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 proved	conj
23	without	without	SCONJ	_	24 bringing	mark
24	bringing	bring	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 elapsed	advcl
25	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	26 change	det
26	change	change	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 bringing	obj
27	in	in	ADP	_	31 ideas	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 prince	det
29	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 ideas	nmod:poss
30	's	's	PART	_	29 prince	case
31	ideas	idea	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 bringing	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 proved	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	prove	past	this similar conversations				to the Sultan	vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to sultan=Experiencer
2	is	past	Sultan				useless property	tree rules
3	argue speech: disagree	to-infinitive	Sultan not said here				with race's son	vn chit_chat-37.6-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with son=Co-Agent
4	elapse	participle	this similar conversations not said here			year		tree rules
5	bring	gerund	this similar conversations not said here	any change	the prince's ideas			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent change=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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