The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 39, sentence 76

In answer to this proclamation many foreign professors flocked into Cashmere, but they naturally were not more successful than the rest had been, as the cure depended neither on them nor their skill, but only on the princess herself.

Who acts: many foreign professors, professors, rest, cure · What happens: flock, be, depend · To what, where: answer

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 (many foreign professors, professors, rest, cure), 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 answer	case
2	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 flocked	obl
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 proclamation	case
4	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 proclamation	det
5	proclamation	proclamation	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 answer	nmod
6	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 professors	amod
7	foreign	foreign	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 professors	amod
8	professors	professor	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 flocked	nsubj
9	flocked	flock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	into	into	ADP	_	11 Cashmere	case
11	Cashmere	Cashmere	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 flocked	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 successful	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 successful	cc
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 successful	nsubj
15	naturally	naturally	ADV	_	19 successful	advmod
16	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 successful	cop
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 more	advmod
18	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	19 successful	advmod
19	successful	successful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 flocked	parataxis
20	than	than	SCONJ	_	24 been	mark
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 rest	det
22	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 been	nsubj
23	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 been	aux
24	been	be	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	29 depended	advcl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 depended	punct
26	as	as	SCONJ	_	29 depended	mark
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 cure	det
28	cure	cure	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 depended	nsubj
29	depended	depend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 successful	parataxis
30	neither	neither	ADV	_	29 depended	advmod
31	on	on	ADP	_	32 them	case
32	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 depended	obl
33	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	35 skill	cc
34	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 skill	nmod:poss
35	skill	skill	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 them	conj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 princess	punct
37	but	but	CCONJ	_	41 princess	cc
38	only	only	ADV	_	41 princess	advmod
39	on	on	ADP	_	41 princess	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 princess	det
41	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 successful	conj
42	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	41 princess	nmod:unmarked
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 flocked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	flock	past	many foreign professors	answer to this proclamation	into Cashmere	vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	professors = professor		naturally, successful property	tree rules
3	be	past · perfect	the rest			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	depend	past	the cure		on professors = professor; neither property	vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent on they=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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