The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 36, sentence 51

He thrust down his hand but could feel no money, but still was persuaded it must be there.

Who acts: Ali, money · What happens: thrust down, feel, persuade, be · To what, where: hand, money

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 (Ali, money), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 thrust	nsubj
2	thrust	thrust	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	down	down	ADP	_	2 thrust	compound:prt
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 hand	nmod:poss
5	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 thrust	obj
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 feel	cc
7	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 feel	aux
8	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 thrust	conj
9	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	10 money	det
10	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 feel	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 persuaded	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 persuaded	cc
13	still	still	ADV	_	15 persuaded	advmod
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 persuaded	aux:pass
15	persuaded	persuade	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 thrust	conj
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 there	nsubj
17	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 there	aux
18	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 there	cop
19	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 persuaded	ccomp
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 thrust	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	thrust down	past	Ali	Ali's hand			vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme
2	feel	could	Ali not said here	no money			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Theme
3	persuade	past · passive	Ali not said here		still		vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»
4	is	must	money			there property	tree rules

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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