The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 24, sentence 71

After some consideration his mother consented, and even persuaded the eunuch on guard to make no objection to Marzavan's entering the royal apartment.

Who acts: mother · What happens: consent, persuade, make, enter · To what, where: eunuch, guard, objection, royal apartment

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 (mother), 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	After	after	ADP	_	3 consideration	case
2	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	3 consideration	det
3	consideration	consideration	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 consented	obl
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 mother	nmod:poss
5	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 consented	nsubj
6	consented	consent	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 persuaded	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 persuaded	cc
9	even	even	ADV	_	10 persuaded	advmod
10	persuaded	persuade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 consented	conj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 eunuch	det
12	eunuch	eunuch	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 persuaded	obj
13	on	on	ADP	_	14 guard	case
14	guard	guard	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 persuaded	obl
15	to	to	PART	_	16 make	mark
16	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 persuaded	advcl
17	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	18 objection	det
18	objection	objection	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 make	obj
19	to	to	SCONJ	_	22 entering	mark
20	Marzavan	Marzavan	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 entering	nmod:poss
21	's	's	PART	_	20 Marzavan	case
22	entering	enter	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 make	advcl
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 apartment	det
24	royal	royal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 apartment	amod
25	apartment	apartment	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 entering	obj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 consented	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	consent	past	son's mother			after some consideration	vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	persuade	past	son's mother not said here	the eunuch	guard		vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eunuch=Patient
3	make	to-infinitive	son's mother not said here	no objection			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset objection=Product
4	enter	gerund	son's mother not said here	the royal apartment			vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme apartment=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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