The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 27, sentence 102

They promised to do their utmost, and no day passed that they did not bring a slave for his inspection but none was found without some defect.

Who acts: Khacan, day, Saouy · What happens: promise, do, pass, not bring, find, inspect · To what, where: utmost, slave, none

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Khacan, day, Saouy), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 promised	nsubj
2	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 do	mark
4	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 promised	xcomp
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 utmost	nmod:poss
6	utmost	utmost	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 do	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 passed	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 passed	cc
9	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	10 day	det
10	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 passed	nsubj
11	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 promised	parataxis
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 bring	mark
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 bring	nsubj
14	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 bring	aux
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 bring	advmod
16	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 passed	ccomp
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 slave	det
18	slave	slave	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 bring	obj
19	for	for	ADP	_	21 inspection	case
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 inspection	nmod:poss
21	inspection	inspection	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 bring	obl
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 found	cc
23	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	25 found	nsubj:pass
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 found	aux:pass
25	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 bring	conj
26	without	without	ADP	_	28 defect	case
27	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	28 defect	det
28	defect	defect	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 found	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 promised	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	promise speech: promise	past	Khacan			vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	do not said to happen	to-infinitive	Khacan not said here	Khacan's utmost		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent utmost=Eventuality
3	pass	past	no day			tree rules
4	not bring	past · do-support	Khacan	a slave	for Saouy's inspection	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent slave=Theme
5	find	past · passive		none	without some defect	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic
6	inspect		Saouy			nom inspection «act transitive»: 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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