The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 39, sentence 65

The slaves that were in waiting ran to her aid, and the Sultan himself did his best to bring her back to consciousness, but for a long while it was all to no purpose.

Who acts: slaves, Sultan, consciousness · What happens: wait, run, do, bring back, be · To what, where: best, announcement, consciousness

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (slaves, Sultan, consciousness), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 slaves	det
2	slaves	slave	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 ran	nsubj
3	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 waiting	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 waiting	aux
5	in	in	SCONJ	_	6 waiting	mark
6	waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 slaves	acl:relcl
7	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 aid	case
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 aid	nmod:poss
10	aid	aid	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 ran	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 did	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 did	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Sultan	det
14	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 did	nsubj
15	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	14 Sultan	nmod
16	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 ran	conj
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 best	nmod:poss
18	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	16 did	obj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 bring	mark
20	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 did	advcl
21	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 bring	obj
22	back	back	ADV	_	20 bring	advmod
23	to	to	ADP	_	24 consciousness	case
24	consciousness	consciousness	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 bring	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 long	punct
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	29 long	cc
27	for	for	ADP	_	29 long	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 long	det
29	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 ran	parataxis
30	while	while	SCONJ	_	36 purpose	mark
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 purpose	nsubj
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 purpose	cop
33	all	all	ADV	_	36 purpose	advmod
34	to	to	ADP	_	36 purpose	case
35	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	36 purpose	det
36	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 long	advcl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 ran	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	wait	past · progressive	the slaves				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	run	past	the slaves			to announcement's aid result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to aid=Result
3	do	past	the Sultan Sultan	Sultan's best			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent good=Eventuality
4	bring back	to-infinitive	the Sultan Sultan not said here	announcement	consciousness		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to consciousness=Destination
5	is	past	consciousness			to no purpose; all 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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