The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 35, sentence 77

We met often going to the same baths, but we did not like each other, and never sought to become friends.

Who acts: We · What happens: meet, go, not like, not seek, become · To what, where: same baths, each, friends

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 (We), 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	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 met	nsubj
2	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	often	often	ADV	_	2 met	advmod
4	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 met	advcl
5	to	to	ADP	_	8 baths	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 baths	det
7	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 baths	amod
8	baths	bath	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 going	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 like	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 like	cc
11	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 like	nsubj
12	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 like	aux
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 like	advmod
14	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 met	advcl
15	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	14 like	obj
16	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 each	fixed
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 sought	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 sought	cc
19	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	20 sought	advmod
20	sought	seek	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 met	conj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 become	mark
22	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 sought	xcomp
23	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 become	xcomp
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 met	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	meet	past	We			often property	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	go	gerund	We not said here		the same baths		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bath=Initial_Location
3	not like	past · do-support	we	each			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot each=Theme
4	not seek	past	We not said here				tree rules
5	become not said to happen	to-infinitive	We not said here	friends			vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

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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