The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 28, sentence 85

This advice Noureddin was not slow to follow, and soon he formed little society of ten young men all about his own age, with whom he spent all his time in continual feasting and merry-making.

Who acts: advice, vizir · What happens: not be, follow, form, spend, make · To what, where: little society, continual feasting

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 (advice, vizir), 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	This	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 advice	det
2	advice	advice	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 slow	nsubj
3	Noureddin	Noureddin	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 advice	appos
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 slow	cop
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 slow	advmod
6	slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 follow	mark
8	follow	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 slow	xcomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 formed	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 formed	cc
11	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	13 formed	advmod
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 formed	nsubj
13	formed	form	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 slow	advcl
14	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 society	amod
15	society	society	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 formed	obj
16	of	of	ADP	_	19 men	case
17	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 men	nummod
18	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 men	amod
19	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 society	nmod
20	all	all	ADV	_	24 age	advmod
21	about	about	ADP	_	24 age	case
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 age	nmod:poss
23	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 age	amod
24	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 formed	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 whom	punct
26	with	with	ADP	_	27 whom	case
27	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 formed	obl
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 spent	nsubj
29	spent	spend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 whom	acl:relcl
30	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	32 time	det:predet
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 time	nmod:poss
32	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 spent	obj
33	in	in	ADP	_	35 feasting	case
34	continual	continual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 feasting	amod
35	feasting	feasting	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 spent	obl
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 making	cc
37	merry	merry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 making	amod
38	-	-	PUNCT	_	37 merry	punct
39	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	29 spent	advcl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 slow	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	past	this advice				slow property	tree rules
2	follow	to-infinitive	this advice not said here					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	form	past	vizir	little society of ten young men		about vizir's own age	soon property	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location society=Theme
4	spend	past	vizir		continual feasting	time		vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	make	gerund	vizir not said here					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset

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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