The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 39, sentence 73

A few, who pretended to be cleverer than the rest, declared that they could diagnose sick people only from sight, ordered her certain potions, which she made no difficulty about taking, as she was persuaded they were all harmless.

Who acts: few, doctors, certain potions, difficulty · What happens: pretend, be, declare, diagnose, order, make · To what, where: sick people, sight, certain potions, Princess, difficulty · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (few, doctors, certain potions, difficulty), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 few	det
2	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 pretended	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 pretended	punct
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 pretended	nsubj
5	pretended	pretend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	8 cleverer	mark
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 cleverer	cop
8	cleverer	clever	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 pretended	ccomp
9	than	than	ADP	_	11 rest	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 rest	det
11	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cleverer	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 declared	punct
13	declared	declare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 pretended	conj
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 diagnose	mark
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 diagnose	nsubj
16	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 diagnose	aux
17	diagnose	diagnose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 declared	ccomp
18	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 people	amod
19	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 diagnose	obj
20	only	only	ADV	_	22 sight	advmod
21	from	from	ADP	_	22 sight	case
22	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 diagnose	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 ordered	punct
24	ordered	order	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 pretended	advcl
25	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 ordered	obj
26	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 potions	amod
27	potions	potion	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 ordered	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 made	punct
29	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 made	nsubj
30	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 made	nsubj
31	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 potions	acl:relcl
32	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	33 difficulty	det
33	difficulty	difficulty	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 made	obj
34	about	about	SCONJ	_	35 taking	mark
35	taking	take	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	33 difficulty	acl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 persuaded	punct
37	as	as	SCONJ	_	40 persuaded	mark
38	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 persuaded	nsubj:pass
39	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 persuaded	aux:pass
40	persuaded	persuade	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	35 taking	ccomp
41	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 harmless	nsubj
42	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 harmless	cop
43	all	all	ADV	_	44 harmless	advmod
44	harmless	harmless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 persuaded	ccomp
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 pretended	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	pretend	past	a few					tree rules
2	is	to-infinitive	a few not said here				than the rest; clever property	tree rules
3	declare speech: other	past	a few not said here					vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	diagnose	could	doctors = doctor	sick people		sight		vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent people=Theme
5	order	past	a few not said here	certain potions	Princess			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary potion=Theme
6	make	past	certain potions	no difficulty				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset difficulty=Product
7	take	gerund	no difficulty not said here					vn require-103 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Precondition
8	persuade	past · passive		Princess				vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
9	is	past	doctors = doctor				all, harmless 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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