The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 29, sentence 24

Then, taking the beautiful Persian, he returned home amidst the acclamations of the people, who detested Saouy so much that they would neither interfere in his behalf nor allow his slaves to protect him.

Who acts: Noureddin, people · What happens: take, return, detest, interfere, allow, protect · To what, where: beautiful Persian, Saouy, behalf, slaves, Noureddin, people

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 (Noureddin, people), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 taking	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Then	punct
3	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 returned	advcl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Persian	det
5	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 Persian	amod
6	Persian	persian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 taking	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 taking	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 returned	nsubj
9	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	home	home	ADV	_	9 returned	advmod
11	amidst	amidst	ADP	_	13 acclamations	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 acclamations	det
13	acclamations	acclamation	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 returned	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 people	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 people	det
16	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 acclamations	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 detested	punct
18	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 detested	nsubj
19	detested	detest	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 people	acl:relcl
20	Saouy	Saouy	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 detested	obj
21	so	so	ADV	_	22 much	advmod
22	much	much	ADV	_	27 interfere	advmod
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 interfere	mark
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 interfere	nsubj
25	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 interfere	aux
26	neither	neither	ADV	_	27 interfere	advmod
27	interfere	interfere	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 detested	advcl
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 behalf	case
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 behalf	nmod:poss
30	behalf	behalf	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 interfere	obl
31	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	32 allow	cc
32	allow	allow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 interfere	conj
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 slaves	nmod:poss
34	slaves	slave	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 allow	obj
35	to	to	PART	_	36 protect	mark
36	protect	protect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 allow	advcl
37	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 protect	obj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 returned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	gerund	Noureddin not said here	the beautiful Persian			then		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent persian=Theme
2	return	past	Noureddin					amidst the acclamations of the people; home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	detest	past	the people	Saouy					vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer saouy=Stimulus
4	interfere	would	people			Noureddin's behalf		neither property	tree rules
5	allow	infinitive	people not said here	Noureddin's slaves					vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent slave=Beneficiary
6	protect	to-infinitive	people not said here		Noureddin				vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary
7	acclaim			the people					nom acclamation «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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