The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 26, sentence 72
But the prince would not hear of this suggestion, and finally after much discussion they agreed to divide the gold.
Who acts: prince, riches · What happens: not hear, agree, divide · To what, where: much discussion, gold
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, riches), 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 | _ | 6 hear | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 prince | det |
| 3 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hear | nsubj |
| 4 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 hear | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 hear | advmod |
| 6 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 suggestion | case |
| 8 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 suggestion | det |
| 9 | suggestion | suggestion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hear | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 discussion | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 discussion | cc |
| 12 | finally | finally | ADV | _ | 15 discussion | advmod |
| 13 | after | after | ADP | _ | 15 discussion | case |
| 14 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 discussion | amod |
| 15 | discussion | discussion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 suggestion | appos |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 agreed | nsubj |
| 17 | agreed | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 discussion | acl:relcl |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 divide | mark |
| 19 | divide | divide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 agreed | xcomp |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 gold | det |
| 21 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 divide | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 hear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not hear | would | the prince | of this suggestion | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of suggestion=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | agree speech: agree | past | riches = rich | much discussion not said here | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.co-agent that S»: agent=Agent discussion=Co-Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | divide not said to happen | to-infinitive | riches = rich not said here | the gold | vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gold=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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