The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 28, sentence 22

Noureddin availed himself of every opportunity to gaze upon her beauty, to talk and laugh with her, and never would have left her side if his mother had not forced him.

Who acts: Noureddin · What happens: avail, gaze, talk, laugh, not leave, not force · To what, where: vizir, side, mother

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Noureddin), 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	Noureddin	Noureddin	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 availed	nsubj
2	availed	avail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 availed	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 opportunity	case
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 opportunity	det
6	opportunity	opportunity	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 availed	obl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 gaze	mark
8	gaze	gaze	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 availed	advcl
9	upon	upon	ADP	_	11 beauty	case
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 beauty	nmod:poss
11	beauty	beauty	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 gaze	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 talk	punct
13	to	to	PART	_	14 talk	mark
14	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 gaze	conj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 laugh	cc
16	laugh	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 talk	conj
17	with	with	ADP	_	18 her	case
18	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 laugh	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 left	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 left	cc
21	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	24 left	advmod
22	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 left	aux
23	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	24 left	aux
24	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 availed	parataxis
25	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 side	nmod:poss
26	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 left	obj
27	if	if	SCONJ	_	32 forced	mark
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 mother	nmod:poss
29	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 forced	nsubj:pass
30	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 forced	aux
31	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	32 forced	advmod
32	forced	force	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 left	advcl
33	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 forced	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 availed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	avail	past	Noureddin	vizir	of every opportunity	tree rules
2	gaze	to-infinitive	Noureddin not said here		upon Noureddin's beauty	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon beauty=Theme
3	talk	to-infinitive	Noureddin not said here			vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	laugh	infinitive	Noureddin not said here		with Noureddin	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	not leave	would · perfect		Noureddin's side		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent side=Theme
6	not force a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect · passive		vizir's mother		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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