The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 29, sentence 85

Now the old man only made a pretence of renouncing wine; he frequented wine-shops like other people, and had taken none of the precautions Noureddin had proposed.

Who acts: old man, pretence, man, Noureddin · What happens: make, renounce, frequent, take, propose · To what, where: pretence, wine, wine shops, none, precautions

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, pretence, man, Noureddin), 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 made	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 man	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 man	amod
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 made	nsubj
5	only	only	ADV	_	6 made	advmod
6	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 pretence	det
8	pretence	pretence	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 made	obj
9	of	of	SCONJ	_	10 renouncing	mark
10	renouncing	renounce	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 pretence	acl
11	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 renouncing	obj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 frequented	punct
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 frequented	nsubj
14	frequented	frequent	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 made	conj
15	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 shops	compound
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 wine	punct
17	shops	shop	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 frequented	obj
18	like	like	ADP	_	20 people	case
19	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 people	amod
20	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 shops	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 taken	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 taken	cc
23	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 taken	aux
24	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 frequented	conj
25	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	24 taken	obj
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 precautions	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 precautions	det
28	precautions	precaution	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 none	nmod
29	Noureddin	Noureddin	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 proposed	nsubj
30	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 proposed	aux
31	proposed	propose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	28 precautions	acl:relcl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	the old man	a pretence	now		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pretence=Product
2	renounce	gerund	a pretence not said here	wine			vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wine=Source
3	frequent	past	man	wine shops		like other people	tree rules
4	take	past · perfect	man not said here	none			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent none=Theme
5	propose	past · perfect	Noureddin	the precautions not said here			vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent precaution=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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