The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 42, sentence 10

I did my best to turn them also from their purpose, but it was of no use.

Who acts: I, purpose, men · What happens: do, turn, be, purpose · To what, where: best, men, purpose

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 42. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, purpose, men), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 best	nmod:poss
4	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	2 did	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 turn	mark
6	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 did	advcl
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 turn	obj
8	also	also	ADV	_	11 purpose	advmod
9	from	from	ADP	_	11 purpose	case
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 purpose	nmod:poss
11	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 turn	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 use	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 use	cc
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 use	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 use	cop
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 use	case
17	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	18 use	det
18	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	advcl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	do	past	I	my best			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent good=Eventuality
2	turn	to-infinitive	I not said here	men = man	men's purpose		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent they=Theme from purpose=Trajectory
3	is	past	purpose			of no use	tree rules
4	purpose		men = man				nom purpose «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent

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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