The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 29, sentence 58

Noureddin, on being awoke, told the old man that they were strangers, and merely wished to pass the night there. "

Who acts: Noureddin, persons · What happens: be, tell, wish, pass · To what, where: old man, strangers · Speech: someone speaks here

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, persons), 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	7 told	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 awoke	punct
3	on	on	SCONJ	_	5 awoke	mark
4	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 awoke	cop
5	awoke	awake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Noureddin	acl:relcl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Noureddin	punct
7	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 man	det
9	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 man	amod
10	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 told	obj
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 strangers	mark
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 strangers	nsubj
13	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 strangers	cop
14	strangers	stranger	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 man	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 wished	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 wished	cc
17	merely	merely	ADV	_	18 wished	advmod
18	wished	wish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 told	conj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 pass	mark
20	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 wished	advcl
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 night	det
22	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 pass	obj
23	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	20 pass	advmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 told	punct
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	gerund	Noureddin not said here					awake property	tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	past	Noureddin		the old man				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent man=Recipient
3	is a	past	persons = person	strangers					tree rules
4	wish	participle	Noureddin not said here					merely property	vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
5	pass	to-infinitive	Noureddin not said here			there	night		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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