The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 24, sentence 10

But the prince angrily insisted on knowing who and where the lady was, and was not to be persuaded by all the vizir's protestations to the contrary that the plot had not been one of his making.

Who acts: lady, plot, vizir, prince · What happens: insist, know, be, not be, have, protest · To what, where: prince, contrary, one

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lady, plot, vizir, 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 insisted	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 prince	det
3	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 insisted	nsubj:pass
4	angrily	angrily	ADV	_	5 insisted	advmod
5	insisted	insist	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	on	on	SCONJ	_	7 knowing	mark
7	knowing	know	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 insisted	advcl
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 knowing	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 was	cc
10	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	13 was	advmod
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 lady	det
12	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 was	nsubj
13	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 who	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 persuaded	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 persuaded	cc
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 persuaded	cop
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 persuaded	advmod
18	to	to	PART	_	20 persuaded	mark
19	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 persuaded	aux:pass
20	persuaded	persuade	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 insisted	conj
21	by	by	ADP	_	26 protestations	case
22	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	26 protestations	det:predet
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 vizir	det
24	vizir	vizir	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 protestations	nmod:poss
25	's	's	PART	_	24 vizir	case
26	protestations	protestation	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 persuaded	obl
27	to	to	ADP	_	29 contrary	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 contrary	det
29	contrary	contrary	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 persuaded	obl
30	that	that	SCONJ	_	33 had	mark
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 plot	det
32	plot	plot	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 had	nsubj
33	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 contrary	acl
34	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	36 one	advmod
35	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	36 one	cop
36	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	33 had	obj
37	of	of	ADP	_	39 making	case
38	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 making	nmod:poss
39	making	making	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 one	nmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 insisted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	insist speech: other	participle · passive		the prince	angrily property	vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic
2	know	gerund				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer who=Stimulus
3	be	past	the lady			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	not is	past · passive			by the vizir's protestations; to the contrary; persuade property	tree rules
5	have	past	the plot	the contrary not said here		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent contrary=Patient
6	not is a	participle		one	of prince's making	tree rules
7	protest		the vizir			nom protestation «communication transitive»: poss=agent
8	make		prince			nom making «act 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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