The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 3, sentence 99

But that century passed, and no one freed me.

Who acts: century, one · What happens: pass, free · To what, where: me

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 (century, one), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 passed	cc
2	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 century	det
3	century	century	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 passed	nsubj
4	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 freed	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 freed	cc
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 one	det
8	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 freed	nsubj
9	freed	free	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 passed	conj
10	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 freed	obj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 passed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pass	past	that century						vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	free	past	no one	me					vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer i=Source

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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