The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 29, sentence 17

Now it was not the custom to show a slave to a private bidder, but as no one dared to disobey the vizir his request was granted.

Who acts: way, custom, one, vizir · What happens: not be, show, dare, disobey, grant, request · To what, where: custom, slave, private bidder, vizir, request

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (way, custom, one, 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 custom	advmod
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 custom	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 custom	cop
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 custom	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 custom	det
6	custom	custom	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 show	nsubj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 show	mark
8	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 slave	det
10	slave	slave	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 show	obj
11	to	to	ADP	_	14 bidder	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 bidder	det
13	private	private	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 bidder	amod
14	bidder	bidder	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 show	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 dared	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 dared	cc
17	as	as	SCONJ	_	20 dared	mark
18	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	19 one	det
19	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 dared	nsubj
20	dared	dare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 show	conj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 disobey	mark
22	disobey	disobey	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 dared	xcomp
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 vizir	det
24	vizir	vizir	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 disobey	obj
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 request	nmod:poss
26	request	request	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 granted	nsubj:pass
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 granted	aux:pass
28	granted	grant	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 vizir	acl:relcl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 show	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	not is a	past	way	the custom		now	tree rules
2	show	to-infinitive	the custom	a slave	a private bidder		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent slave=Topic to bidder=Recipient
3	dare	past	no one				vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	disobey	to-infinitive	no one not said here	the vizir			tree rules
5	grant	past · passive	the vizir not said here	custom's request			vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: subject=Theme
6	request		custom				nom request «communication 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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