The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 36, sentence 43

These words made no more impression on the merchant than the others had done; and he spent the whole night in wondering how he could manage to keep the gold if Ali Cogia should come back and claim his vase.

Who acts: words, others, other, Ali · What happens: make, do, spend, wonder, manage, keep · To what, where: more impression, merchant, gold, vase · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (words, others, other, Ali), 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	These	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	2 words	det
2	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 made	nsubj
3	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	no	no	ADV	_	6 impression	advmod
5	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 impression	amod
6	impression	impression	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	obj
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 merchant	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 merchant	det
9	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	obl
10	than	than	SCONJ	_	14 done	mark
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 others	det
12	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 done	nsubj
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 done	aux
14	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 made	advcl
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 spent	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 spent	cc
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 spent	nsubj
18	spent	spend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 made	conj
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 night	det
20	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 night	amod
21	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 spent	obj
22	in	in	SCONJ	_	23 wondering	mark
23	wondering	wonder	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 spent	advcl
24	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	27 manage	advmod
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 manage	nsubj
26	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 manage	aux
27	manage	manage	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 wondering	ccomp
28	to	to	PART	_	29 keep	mark
29	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 manage	xcomp
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 gold	det
31	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 keep	obj
32	if	if	SCONJ	_	36 come	mark
33	Ali	Ali	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 come	nsubj
34	Cogia	Cogia	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 Ali	flat
35	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 come	aux
36	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 keep	advcl
37	back	back	ADV	_	36 come	advmod
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 claim	cc
39	claim	claim	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 come	conj
40	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 vase	nmod:poss
41	vase	vase	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 claim	obj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	make	past	this words	more impression	the merchant		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset impression=Product
2	do	past · perfect	the others				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	spend	past	other			night	vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	wonder speech: ask	gerund	other not said here				vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	manage	could	other				vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	keep	to-infinitive	other not said here	the gold			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gold=Theme
7	come back a condition, not said to happen	should	Ali				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	claim speech: other	infinitive	Ali not said here	Ali's vase			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent vase=Topic

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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