The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 34, sentence 107

However I had patience with you, and only tried to tempt your appetite by the choicest dishes I could invent, but all to no purpose.

Who acts: I · What happens: have, try, tempt, invent · To what, where: patience, appetite, choicest dishes

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), 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	However	however	ADV	_	3 had	advmod
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	patience	patience	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	obj
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 you	case
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 patience	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 tried	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 tried	cc
9	only	only	ADV	_	10 tried	advmod
10	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 had	conj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 tempt	mark
12	tempt	tempt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 tried	xcomp
13	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 appetite	nmod:poss
14	appetite	appetite	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 tempt	obj
15	by	by	ADP	_	18 dishes	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 dishes	det
17	choicest	choice	ADJ	Degree=Sup	18 dishes	amod
18	dishes	dish	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 tempt	obl
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 invent	nsubj
20	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 invent	aux
21	invent	invent	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 dishes	acl:relcl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 all	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 all	cc
24	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 had	conj
25	to	to	ADP	_	27 purpose	case
26	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	27 purpose	det
27	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 all	nmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	past	I	patience	with you; however property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent patience=Patient
2	try	past	I not said here			vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	tempt not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here	your appetite	by the choicest dishes	vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent appetite=Recipient
4	invent	could	I	the choicest dishes not said here		vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dish=Result

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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