The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 34, sentence 101

But even prayer did not restore peace to my troubled spirit, and I could not face my wife until I had made up my mind what future course I should pursue in regard to her.

Who acts: prayer, I, future course, my · What happens: not restore, not face, make up, pursue, mind · To what, where: peace, troubled spirit, wife, mind, regard

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prayer, I, future course, my), 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	_	6 restore	cc
2	even	even	ADV	_	3 prayer	advmod
3	prayer	prayer	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 restore	nsubj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 restore	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 restore	advmod
6	restore	restore	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	peace	peace	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 restore	obj
8	to	to	ADP	_	11 spirit	case
9	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 spirit	nmod:poss
10	troubled	troubled	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 spirit	amod
11	spirit	spirit	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 restore	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 face	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 face	cc
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 face	nsubj
15	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 face	aux
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 face	advmod
17	face	face	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 restore	conj
18	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 wife	nmod:poss
19	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 face	obj
20	until	until	SCONJ	_	23 made	mark
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 made	nsubj
22	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 made	aux
23	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 face	advcl
24	up	up	ADP	_	23 made	compound:prt
25	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 mind	nmod:poss
26	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 made	obj
27	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	32 pursue	obj
28	future	future	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 course	amod
29	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 pursue	nsubj
30	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 pursue	nsubj
31	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 pursue	aux
32	pursue	pursue	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 made	parataxis
33	in	in	ADP	_	34 regard	case
34	regard	regard	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 pursue	obl
35	to	to	ADP	_	36 her	case
36	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 regard	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 restore	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	not restore	past · do-support	prayer	peace	my troubled spirit		vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent peace=Theme to spirit=Recipient
2	not face	could	I		my wife		vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent wife=Destination
3	make up	past · perfect	I	my mind			vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mind=Pivot
4	pursue	should	future course			regard to sound	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent what=Theme in regard=Trajectory
5	mind		my				nom mind «cognition 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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