The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 29, sentence 80
Then he withdrew, in spite of repeated invitations to remain.
Who acts: Scheih · What happens: withdraw, repeat, remain, spite · To what, where: spite, repeated invitations
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 (Scheih), 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 withdrew | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 withdrew | nsubj |
| 3 | withdrew | withdraw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 spite | punct |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 spite | case |
| 6 | spite | spite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 withdrew | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 invitations | case |
| 8 | repeated | repeat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 invitations | amod |
| 9 | invitations | invitation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 spite | nmod |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 remain | mark |
| 11 | remain | remain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 withdrew | advcl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 withdrew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | withdraw | past | Scheih | spite of repeated invitations | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | repeat | participle | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||||
| 3 | remain | to-infinitive | Scheih not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | spite | repeated invitations | nom spite «feeling 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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