The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 42, sentence 11

Not one of them would listen to my words, and not one of them came back.

Who acts: one, my · What happens: not listen, come back, word

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 (one, my), 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	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 listen	advmod
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 listen	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 them	case
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 one	nmod
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 listen	aux
6	listen	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 words	case
8	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 words	nmod:poss
9	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 listen	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 came	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 came	cc
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 one	advmod
13	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 came	nsubj
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 them	case
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 one	nmod
16	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 listen	parataxis
17	back	back	ADV	_	16 came	advmod
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 listen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	not listen	would	one of men	to my words	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to word=Theme
2	come back	past	one of men		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	word		my		nom word «communication transitive»: 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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