The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 28, sentence 83

Noureddin showed every mark of the deepest grief at his father's death, and for long refused to see any one.

Who acts: Noureddin, father · What happens: show, refuse, not see, mark, die · To what, where: mark, death, one, deepest grief

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, father), 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 showed	nsubj
2	showed	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	4 mark	det
4	mark	mark	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 showed	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 grief	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 grief	det
7	deepest	deep	ADJ	Degree=Sup	8 grief	amod
8	grief	grief	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 mark	nmod
9	at	at	ADP	_	13 death	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 father	nmod:poss
11	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 death	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 father	case
13	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 showed	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 refused	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 refused	cc
16	for	for	ADP	_	17 long	case
17	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	18 refused	obl
18	refused	refuse	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 showed	conj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 see	mark
20	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 refused	xcomp
21	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	22 one	det
22	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 see	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 showed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	show	past	Noureddin	every mark of the deepest grief	vizir's father's death	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mark=Recipient
2	refuse	participle	Noureddin not said here			vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	not see	to-infinitive	Noureddin not said here	any one		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus
4	mark			the deepest grief		nom mark «cognition transitive»: of=patient
5	die		vizir's father			nom death «event intransitive»: 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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