The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 33, sentence 48

Still there was no use in discussing the matter, and I had to accept his conditions or bewail to the end of my life the loss of immense wealth.

Who acts: use, I · What happens: be, discuss, have, accept, bewail, condition · To what, where: matter, conditions, loss

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (use, I), 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	Still	still	ADV	_	3 was	advmod
2	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 was	expl
3	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 use	det
5	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 was	nsubj
6	in	in	SCONJ	_	7 discussing	mark
7	discussing	discuss	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 use	acl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 matter	det
9	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 discussing	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 had	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 had	cc
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 had	nsubj
13	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 was	conj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 accept	mark
15	accept	accept	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 had	xcomp
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 conditions	nmod:poss
17	conditions	condition	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 accept	obj
18	or	or	CCONJ	_	19 bewail	cc
19	bewail	bewail	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 accept	conj
20	to	to	ADP	_	22 end	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 end	det
22	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 bewail	obl
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 life	case
24	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 life	nmod:poss
25	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 end	nmod
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 loss	det
27	loss	loss	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 bewail	obj
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 wealth	case
29	immense	immense	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 wealth	amod
30	wealth	wealth	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 loss	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	be	past	no use		there	still	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	discuss speech: other	gerund	no use not said here	the matter			vn chit_chat-37.6-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent matter=Topic
3	have	past	I				tree rules
4	accept	to-infinitive	I not said here	use's conditions			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent condition=Theme
5	bewail	infinitive	I not said here	the loss of immense wealth		to the end of my life	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer loss=Stimulus
6	condition		use				nom condition «state transitive»: poss=agent

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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