The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 36, sentence 32
The merchant, however, refused to listen to her advice, sensible though it was.
Who acts: merchant, advice · What happens: refuse, not listen, be
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (merchant, advice), 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 merchant | det |
| 2 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 refused | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 merchant | punct |
| 4 | however | however | ADV | _ | 6 refused | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 however | punct |
| 6 | refused | refuse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 listen | mark |
| 8 | listen | listen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 refused | xcomp |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 advice | case |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 advice | nmod:poss |
| 11 | advice | advice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 listen | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 sensible | punct |
| 13 | sensible | sensible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 advice | amod |
| 14 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 16 was | mark |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 was | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 sensible | advcl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 refused | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | refuse | past | the merchant | however property | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not listen | to-infinitive | the merchant not said here | to Mecca's advice | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to advice=Theme | ||||
| 3 | be | past | advice | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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