The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 36, sentence 66
Ali Cogia still tried every means to persuade the merchant to admit the truth. "
Who acts: Ali, every, merchant · What happens: try, mean, persuade, admit · To what, where: merchant, truth
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, every, merchant), 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 | Ali | Ali | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 tried | nsubj |
| 2 | Cogia | Cogia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Ali | flat |
| 3 | still | still | ADV | _ | 4 tried | advmod |
| 4 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 means | nsubj |
| 6 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 tried | ccomp |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 persuade | mark |
| 8 | persuade | persuade | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 means | xcomp |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 merchant | det |
| 10 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 persuade | obj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 admit | mark |
| 12 | admit | admit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 persuade | xcomp |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 truth | det |
| 14 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 admit | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 tried | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 tried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | past | Ali | still | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | mean | present | every | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | persuade not said to happen | to-infinitive | every not said here | the merchant | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent merchant=Patient clause=Result | ||||
| 4 | admit speech: other | to-infinitive | the merchant not said here | the truth | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent truth=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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