The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 40, sentence 44

Judging from the few words that reached his ear, they were each explaining what sort of men they wished to marry.

Who acts: few words, words · What happens: judge, reach, explain, wish, marry, sort · To what, where: few words, ear, sort, men

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 40. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (few words, words), 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	Judging	judge	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	from	from	ADP	_	5 words	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 words	det
4	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 words	amod
5	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Judging	obl
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 reached	nsubj
7	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 words	acl:relcl
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 ear	nmod:poss
9	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 reached	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 explaining	punct
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 explaining	nsubj
12	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 explaining	aux
13	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	14 explaining	nsubj
14	explaining	explain	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Judging	advcl
15	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	16 sort	det
16	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 explaining	obj
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 men	case
18	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 sort	nmod
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 wished	nsubj
20	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 sort	acl:relcl
21	to	to	PART	_	22 marry	mark
22	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 wished	xcomp
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Judging	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	judge	gerund			the few words	vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent
2	reach	past	the few words	Sultan's ear		vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent ear=Theme
3	explain speech: assert	past · progressive	words = word	what sort of men		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sort=Topic
4	wish	past	words = word	what sort of men not said here		tree rules
5	marry not said to happen	to-infinitive	words = word not said here			vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
6	sort			men		nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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