The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 29, sentence 84

At first the old man declined, but was persuaded to enter the room, to sit down on the edge of the sofa nearest the door, and at last to draw closer and to seat himself by the beautiful Persian, who urged him so persistently to drink her health that at length he yielded, and took the cup she offered.

Who acts: old man, man, Mecca · What happens: decline, persuade, enter, sit down, draw, urge · To what, where: room, edge, seat, man, Mecca, health

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 (old man, man, Mecca), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 first	case
2	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	6 declined	obl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 man	det
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 man	amod
5	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 declined	nsubj
6	declined	decline	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 persuaded	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 persuaded	cc
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 persuaded	aux:pass
10	persuaded	persuade	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 declined	ccomp
11	to	to	PART	_	12 enter	mark
12	enter	enter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 persuaded	xcomp
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 room	det
14	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 enter	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 sit	punct
16	to	to	PART	_	17 sit	mark
17	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 persuaded	conj
18	down	down	ADP	_	17 sit	compound:prt
19	on	on	ADP	_	21 edge	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 edge	det
21	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 sit	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 sofa	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 sofa	det
24	sofa	sofa	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 edge	nmod
25	nearest	nearest	ADP	_	27 door	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 door	det
27	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 sit	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 last	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 last	cc
30	at	at	ADP	_	31 last	case
31	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 declined	conj
32	to	to	PART	_	33 draw	mark
33	draw	draw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 last	csubj
34	closer	close	ADV	Degree=Cmp	33 draw	advmod
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 seat	cc
36	to	to	PART	_	37 seat	mark
37	seat	seat	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 draw	obj
38	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	37 seat	nmod:unmarked
39	by	by	SCONJ	_	42 Persian	mark
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 Persian	det
41	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 Persian	amod
42	Persian	persian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 seat	acl:relcl
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 urged	punct
44	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	45 urged	nsubj
45	urged	urge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 Persian	parataxis
46	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 urged	iobj
47	so	so	ADV	_	48 persistently	advmod
48	persistently	persistently	ADV	_	50 drink	advmod
49	to	to	PART	_	50 drink	mark
50	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	45 urged	xcomp
51	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 drink	obj
52	health	health	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 drink	obj
53	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	57 yielded	obj
54	at	at	ADP	_	55 length	case
55	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 yielded	obl
56	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	57 yielded	nsubj
57	yielded	yield	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	52 health	acl:relcl
58	,	,	PUNCT	_	60 took	punct
59	and	and	CCONJ	_	60 took	cc
60	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 urged	conj
61	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	62 cup	det
62	cup	cup	NOUN	Number=Sing	60 took	obj
63	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	64 offered	nsubj
64	offered	offer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	62 cup	acl:relcl
65	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 declined	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	decline	past	the old man					vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	persuade	past · passive	the old man not said here					vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: clause=Result
3	enter	to-infinitive	the old man not said here	the room				vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme room=Destination
4	sit down	to-infinitive	the old man not said here			the edge of the sofa	nearest the door	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on edge=Location
5	draw	to-infinitive		seat man			close property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seat=Theme
6	urge	past			man			vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
7	drink not said to happen	to-infinitive		Mecca			persistently property	tree rules
8	yield	past	man	health		length		vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent that=Theme
9	take	past		the cup				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cup=Theme
10	offer	past	Mecca	the cup not said here				vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent cup=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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