The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 29, sentence 86

Having once yielded, he was easily persuaded to take a second cup, and a third, and so on till he no longer knew what he was doing.

Who acts: Noureddin · What happens: yield, persuade, take, know, do · To what, where: Noureddin, second cup · 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), 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	Having	have	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 persuaded	aux
2	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	3 yielded	advmod
3	yielded	yield	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Having	xcomp
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Having	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 persuaded	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 persuaded	aux:pass
7	easily	easily	ADV	_	8 persuaded	advmod
8	persuaded	persuade	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	to	to	PART	_	10 take	mark
10	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 persuaded	xcomp
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 cup	det
12	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	13 cup	amod
13	cup	cup	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 take	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 third	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 third	cc
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 third	det
17	third	third	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 persuaded	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 knew	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 knew	cc
20	so	so	ADV	_	26 knew	advmod
21	on	on	SCONJ	_	26 knew	mark
22	till	till	SCONJ	_	26 knew	mark
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 knew	nsubj
24	no	no	ADV	_	25 longer	advmod
25	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	26 knew	advmod
26	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 persuaded	parataxis
27	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	30 doing	obj
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 doing	nsubj
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 doing	aux
30	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 knew	ccomp
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 persuaded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	yield	participle	Noureddin not said here		once property	vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	persuade	gerund · passive		Noureddin	a third obl; easily property	vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result
3	take	to-infinitive	Noureddin not said here	a second cup		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cup=Theme
4	know	past	Noureddin		long property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	do	past · progressive	Noureddin			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

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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