The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 35, sentence 44

The neighbours, very naturally, declined to believe his story, and tried me several times with all the bad money they could collect together, but I never failed to stand the test triumphantly.

Who acts: neighbours, I · What happens: decline, not believe, try, collect, not fail, stand · To what, where: story, me, bad money, test

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 (neighbours, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 neighbours	det
2	neighbours	neighbour	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 declined	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 naturally	punct
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 naturally	advmod
5	naturally	naturally	ADV	_	2 neighbours	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 neighbours	punct
7	declined	decline	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 believe	mark
9	believe	believe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 declined	xcomp
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 story	nmod:poss
11	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 believe	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 tried	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 tried	cc
14	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 declined	conj
15	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 tried	obj
16	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 times	amod
17	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 tried	obl:unmarked
18	with	with	ADP	_	22 money	case
19	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	22 money	det:predet
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 money	det
21	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 money	amod
22	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 tried	obl
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 collect	nsubj
24	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 collect	aux
25	collect	collect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 money	acl:relcl
26	together	together	ADV	_	25 collect	advmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 failed	punct
28	but	but	CCONJ	_	31 failed	cc
29	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 failed	nsubj
30	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	31 failed	advmod
31	failed	fail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 declined	conj
32	to	to	PART	_	33 stand	mark
33	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 failed	xcomp
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 test	det
35	test	test	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 stand	obj
36	triumphantly	triumphantly	ADV	_	33 stand	advmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 declined	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	decline	past	the neighbours				vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	not believe	to-infinitive	the neighbours not said here	man's story			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer story=Stimulus
3	try	past	the neighbours not said here	me	time	with all bad money	vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP PP.theme PP.attribute»: agent=Agent i=Patient with money=Theme
4	collect	could	neighbours = neighbour	all bad money not said here		together property	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Theme
5	not fail	past	I				vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	stand	to-infinitive	I not said here	the test		triumphantly property	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer test=Stimulus

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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