The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 36, sentence 77

By this time not only the casual passers-by, but also the neighbouring merchants, were standing round, listening to the dispute, and trying every now and then to smooth matters between them.

What happens: stand, listen, try, smooth · To what, where: every, matters

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: 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	By	by	ADP	_	3 time	case
2	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 time	det
3	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 standing	obl
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 passers	advmod
5	only	only	ADV	_	8 passers	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 passers	det
7	casual	casual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 passers	amod
8	passers	passer	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 time	appos
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 by	punct
10	by	by	ADP	_	8 passers	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 merchants	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 merchants	cc
13	also	also	ADV	_	16 merchants	advmod
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 merchants	det
15	neighbouring	neighbouring	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 merchants	amod
16	merchants	merchant	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 time	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 time	punct
18	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 standing	aux
19	standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
20	round	round	ADV	_	19 standing	advmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 listening	punct
22	listening	listen	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 standing	conj
23	to	to	ADP	_	25 dispute	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 dispute	det
25	dispute	dispute	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 listening	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 trying	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 trying	cc
28	trying	try	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 standing	conj
29	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	28 trying	obj
30	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	28 trying	advmod
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 then	cc
32	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	30 now	conj
33	to	to	PART	_	34 smooth	mark
34	smooth	smooth	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 trying	advcl
35	matters	matter	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 smooth	obj
36	between	between	ADP	_	37 them	case
37	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 matters	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 standing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	stand	past · progressive		time	round property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	listen	gerund			to the dispute	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to dispute=Theme
3	try	gerund	every	now		vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent every=Eventuality
4	smooth	to-infinitive	matters		between passers = passer	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent matter=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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