The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 40, sentence 65
The other sisters also tried to excuse themselves, but the Sultan would hear nothing.
Who acts: other sisters, Sultan · What happens: try, excuse, hear · To what, where: Sisters, nothing
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 (other sisters, Sultan), 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 | 3 sisters | det |
| 2 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 sisters | amod |
| 3 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 tried | nsubj |
| 4 | also | also | ADV | _ | 5 tried | advmod |
| 5 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 excuse | mark |
| 7 | excuse | excuse | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 tried | xcomp |
| 8 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 7 excuse | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 hear | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 hear | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Sultan | det |
| 12 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 hear | nsubj |
| 13 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 hear | aux |
| 14 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 tried | conj |
| 15 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 14 hear | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 tried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | past | the other sisters | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | excuse not said to happen | to-infinitive | the other sisters not said here | Sisters = sister | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme | ||||
| 3 | hear | would | the Sultan | nothing | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus |
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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