The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 3, sentence 8
My eldest brother and I did all we could to dissuade him, but it was of no use.
Who acts: eldest brother, travel · What happens: dissuade, be · To what, where: him
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eldest brother, travel), 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 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 brother | nmod:poss |
| 2 | eldest | eld | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 brother | amod |
| 3 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 dissuade | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 I | cc |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 brother | conj |
| 6 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 dissuade | aux |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 dissuade | nsubj:outer |
| 8 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 could | nsubj |
| 9 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 dissuade | aux |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 dissuade | mark |
| 11 | dissuade | dissuade | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 dissuade | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 use | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 use | cc |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 use | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 use | cop |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 use | case |
| 18 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 19 use | det |
| 19 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 dissuade | advcl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 dissuade | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dissuade | could · past · do-support | My eldest brother | him = he | vn discourage-64.5 «NP V NP PP.eventuality»: agent=Causer he=Beneficiary | ||||
| 2 | is | past | travel | of no use | tree rules |
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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