The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 27, sentence 93

What made him particularly detested was the great aversion he had to Khacan, of whom he never ceased to speak evil to the king.

Who acts: detested great aversion, Saouy · What happens: make, detest, be, have, not cease, speak · To what, where: Saouy, detested great aversion, Khacan, evil · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (detested great aversion, 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 made	nsubj
2	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 made	obj
4	particularly	particularly	ADV	_	5 detested	advmod
5	detested	detest	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 aversion	amod
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 aversion	cop
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 aversion	det
8	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 aversion	amod
9	aversion	aversion	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 had	nsubj
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 had	nsubj
11	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 made	parataxis
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 Khacan	case
13	Khacan	Khacan	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 had	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 whom	punct
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 whom	case
16	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 had	conj
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 ceased	nsubj
18	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	19 ceased	advmod
19	ceased	cease	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 whom	acl:relcl
20	to	to	PART	_	21 speak	mark
21	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 ceased	xcomp
22	evil	evil	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 speak	obj
23	to	to	ADP	_	25 king	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 king	det
25	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 speak	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	make	past		Saouy			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material he=Product
2	detest	participle				particularly property	vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
3	is a	past		the detested great aversion			tree rules
4	have	past	the detested great aversion		Khacan		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	not cease	past	Saouy				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
6	speak speech: other	to-infinitive	Saouy not said here	evil		to the king	tree rules

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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