The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 35, sentence 17

So after my enemies had gone to seek other prey, he tried to lure me from my corner in order to force me into the street.

Who acts: enemies, washing · What happens: go, seek, try, lure, force · To what, where: other prey, me, corner, street

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (enemies, washing), 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	So	so	ADV	_	13 tried	advmod
2	after	after	SCONJ	_	6 gone	mark
3	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 enemies	nmod:poss
4	enemies	enemy	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 gone	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 gone	aux
6	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 tried	advcl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 seek	mark
8	seek	seek	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 gone	advcl
9	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 prey	amod
10	prey	prey	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 seek	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 gone	punct
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 tried	nsubj
13	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	to	to	PART	_	15 lure	mark
15	lure	lure	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 tried	xcomp
16	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 lure	obj
17	from	from	ADP	_	19 corner	case
18	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 corner	nmod:poss
19	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 lure	obl
20	in	in	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	23 force	mark
21	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 in	fixed
22	to	to	PART	_	23 force	mark
23	force	force	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 lure	advcl
24	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 force	obj
25	into	into	ADP	_	27 street	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 street	det
27	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 force	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 tried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	go	past · perfect	my enemies				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	seek	to-infinitive	my enemies not said here	other prey			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prey=Theme
3	try	past	washing				vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	lure not said to happen	to-infinitive	washing not said here	me		my corner	vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient
5	force	to-infinitive	washing not said here		me	the street	vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient

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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