The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 39, sentence 68

But as this sudden seizure showed no sign of abating, he left her to her women, ordering them to take the greatest care of her.

Who acts: sudden seizure, sign, seizure, announcement · What happens: show, abate, leave, order, take, care · To what, where: sign, announcement, women, greatest care

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 (sudden seizure, sign, seizure, announcement), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	13 left	cc
2	as	as	SCONJ	_	6 showed	mark
3	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 seizure	det
4	sudden	sudden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 seizure	amod
5	seizure	seizure	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 showed	nsubj
6	showed	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 left	advcl
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 sign	det
8	sign	sign	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 showed	obj
9	of	of	SCONJ	_	10 abating	mark
10	abating	abate	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 sign	acl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 showed	punct
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 left	nsubj
13	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 left	obj
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 women	case
16	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 women	nmod:poss
17	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 left	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 ordering	punct
19	ordering	order	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 left	advcl
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 ordering	obj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 take	mark
22	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 ordering	advcl
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 care	det
24	greatest	great	ADJ	Degree=Sup	25 care	amod
25	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 take	obj
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 her	case
27	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 care	nmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 left	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	show	past	this sudden seizure	no sign		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent sign=Recipient
2	abate	gerund	no sign not said here			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	leave	past	seizure	announcement	announcement's women	vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Theme to woman=Recipient
4	order	gerund	seizure not said here		women = woman	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
5	take	to-infinitive	seizure not said here	the greatest care of announcement		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme
6	care		announcement			nom care «act intransitive»: of=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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