The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 34, sentence 102

I therefore spent the morning roaming about from one garden to another, turning over various plans for compelling my wife to give up her horrible ways; I thought of using violence to make her submit, but felt reluctant to be unkind to her.

Who acts: I, sound · What happens: spend, roam, turn, compel, give up, think · To what, where: one garden, various plans, wife, horrible ways, violence, sound

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 (I, sound), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 spent	nsubj
2	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	3 spent	advmod
3	spent	spend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 morning	det
5	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 spent	obj
6	roaming	roam	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 spent	advcl
7	about	about	ADV	_	6 roaming	advmod
8	from	from	ADP	_	10 garden	case
9	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 garden	nummod
10	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 roaming	obl
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 another	case
12	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	10 garden	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 turning	punct
14	turning	turn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 roaming	conj
15	over	over	ADP	_	17 plans	case
16	various	various	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 plans	amod
17	plans	plan	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 turning	obl
18	for	for	SCONJ	_	19 compelling	mark
19	compelling	compel	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 turning	advcl
20	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 wife	nmod:poss
21	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 compelling	obj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 give	mark
23	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 compelling	advcl
24	up	up	ADP	_	23 give	compound:prt
25	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 ways	nmod:poss
26	horrible	horrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 ways	amod
27	ways	way	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 give	obj
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 thought	punct
29	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 thought	nsubj
30	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 spent	conj
31	of	of	SCONJ	_	32 using	mark
32	using	use	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	30 thought	advcl
33	violence	violence	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 using	obj
34	to	to	PART	_	35 make	mark
35	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 using	advcl
36	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 make	obj
37	submit	submit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 make	xcomp
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 felt	punct
39	but	but	CCONJ	_	40 felt	cc
40	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 spent	conj
41	reluctant	reluctant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 felt	xcomp
42	to	to	PART	_	44 unkind	mark
43	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	44 unkind	cop
44	unkind	unkind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 reluctant	advcl
45	to	to	ADP	_	46 her	case
46	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 unkind	obl
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 spent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spend	past	I				morning	therefore property	vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	roam	gerund	I not said here			one garden to another		about property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from garden=Trajectory
3	turn	gerund	I not said here			various plans			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme over plan=Trajectory
4	compel	gerund	I not said here	my wife					vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Patient
5	give up	to-infinitive	I not said here	sound's horrible ways					vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Source
6	think speech: other	past	I						vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	use	gerund	I not said here	violence					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent violence=Patient
8	make	to-infinitive	I not said here	sound					tree rules
9	submit	infinitive	sound not said here						vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
10	feel	past	I not said here					reluctant property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
11	is	to-infinitive	I not said here		sound			unkind property	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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