The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 38, sentence 42

I tried to argue with him, but in vain.

Who acts: I · What happens: try, argue

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 tried	nsubj
2	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 argue	mark
4	argue	argue	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 tried	xcomp
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 argue	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 vain	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 vain	cc
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 vain	case
10	vain	vain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 tried	parataxis
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 tried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	try	past	I						vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	argue speech: disagree not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here					with father	vn chit_chat-37.6-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with he=Co-Agent

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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