The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 36, sentence 83

Now as a good Mussulman the merchant was forbidden to refuse this choice of a judge, so he accepted the test, and said to Ali Cogia, "Very well; I should like nothing better.

Who acts: law · What happens: forbid, refuse, accept, say, like · To what, where: merchant, choice, test, Ali, nothing · 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 (law), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 forbidden	advmod
2	as	as	ADP	_	5 Mussulman	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 Mussulman	det
4	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 Mussulman	amod
5	Mussulman	mussulman	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 forbidden	obl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 merchant	det
7	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 forbidden	nsubj:pass
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 forbidden	aux:pass
9	forbidden	forbid	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	to	to	PART	_	11 refuse	mark
11	refuse	refuse	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 forbidden	xcomp
12	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 choice	det
13	choice	choice	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 refuse	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 judge	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 judge	det
16	judge	judge	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 choice	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 accepted	punct
18	so	so	ADV	_	20 accepted	advmod
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 accepted	nsubj
20	accepted	accept	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 forbidden	parataxis
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 test	det
22	test	test	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 accepted	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 said	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 said	cc
25	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 accepted	conj
26	to	to	ADP	_	27 Ali	case
27	Ali	Ali	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 said	obl
28	Cogia	Cogia	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 Ali	flat
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 well	punct
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	32 well	punct
31	Very	very	ADV	_	32 well	advmod
32	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	25 said	advmod
33	;	;	PUNCT	_	36 like	punct
34	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	36 like	nsubj
35	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 like	aux
36	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 forbidden	conj
37	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	36 like	obj
38	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	36 like	xcomp
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 forbidden	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	forbid	past · passive		the merchant		now	as a good Mussulman	tree rules
2	refuse	to-infinitive		this choice of a judge				vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent choice=Theme
3	accept	past	law	the test				vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent test=Theme
4	say speech: assert	past	law not said here		Ali		well property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to ali=Recipient
5	like in a quote	should	law	nothing			good property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Pivot nothing=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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