The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 41, sentence 37

Five or six months passed away in the pleasures of the country, when death attacked the intendant so suddenly that he had no time to reveal the secret of their birth to his adopted children, and as his wife had long been dead also, it seemed as if the princes and the princess would never know that they had been born to a higher station than the one they filled.

Who acts: death, wife, it, princes, children · What happens: pass away, attack, have, reveal, adopt, be · To what, where: Five months, pleasures, intendant, secret, adopted children, children · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 41. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (death, wife, it, princes), 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	Five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 months	nummod
2	or	or	CCONJ	_	3 six	cc
3	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 Five	conj
4	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 attacked	obl:unmarked
5	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 months	acl
6	away	away	ADV	_	5 passed	advmod
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 pleasures	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 pleasures	det
9	pleasures	pleasure	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 passed	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 country	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 country	det
12	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 pleasures	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 attacked	punct
14	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	16 attacked	advmod
15	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 attacked	nsubj
16	attacked	attack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 intendant	det
18	intendant	intendant	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 attacked	obj
19	so	so	ADV	_	20 suddenly	advmod
20	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	16 attacked	advmod
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 had	mark
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 had	nsubj
23	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 attacked	advcl
24	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	25 time	det
25	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 had	obj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 reveal	mark
27	reveal	reveal	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 time	acl
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 secret	det
29	secret	secret	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 reveal	obj
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 birth	case
31	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 birth	nmod:poss
32	birth	birth	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 secret	nmod
33	to	to	ADP	_	36 children	case
34	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 children	nmod:poss
35	adopted	adopt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	36 children	amod
36	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 reveal	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 seemed	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 seemed	cc
39	as	as	SCONJ	_	45 dead	mark
40	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 wife	nmod:poss
41	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 dead	nsubj
42	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 dead	aux
43	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	45 dead	advmod
44	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	45 dead	cop
45	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 seemed	advcl
46	also	also	ADV	_	45 dead	advmod
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 dead	punct
48	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 seemed	nsubj
49	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 attacked	parataxis
50	as	as	SCONJ	_	59 know	mark
51	if	if	SCONJ	_	59 know	mark
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 princes	det
53	princes	prince	NOUN	Number=Plur	59 know	nsubj
54	and	and	CCONJ	_	56 princess	cc
55	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	56 princess	det
56	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 princes	conj
57	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	59 know	aux
58	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	59 know	advmod
59	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	49 seemed	xcomp
60	that	that	SCONJ	_	64 born	mark
61	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	64 born	nsubj:pass
62	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	64 born	aux
63	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	64 born	aux:pass
64	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	59 know	ccomp
65	to	to	ADP	_	68 station	case
66	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	68 station	det
67	higher	high	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	68 station	amod
68	station	station	NOUN	Number=Sing	64 born	obl
69	than	than	ADP	_	71 one	case
70	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	71 one	det
71	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	68 station	nmod
72	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	73 filled	nsubj
73	filled	fill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	71 one	acl:relcl
74	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 attacked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pass away	participle		Five months not said here		the pleasures of the country		away property	vn die-42.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
2	attack	past	death	the intendant			month	suddenly property	vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent intendant=Patient
3	have	past	death				time		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	reveal	to-infinitive	death not said here	the secret of pleasures's birth	death's adopted children				vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent secret=Topic to child=Recipient
5	adopt	participle							vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	is	past · perfect	death's wife					dead, long property	tree rules
7	seem	past	it						vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
8	not know a condition, not said to happen	would	the princes and the princess						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
9	bear	past · perfect · passive		children = child				to a higher station than the one	vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
10	fill	past	children = child	the one not said here					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent one=Patient
11	please			the country					nom pleasure «feeling 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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