The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 42, sentence 52

As in the case of his brother, the dervish tried to make him give up his project, and even told him that only a few weeks since a young man, bearing a strong resemblance to himself, had passed that way, but had never come back again.

Who acts: dervish, fate · What happens: try, make, give up, tell, bear, pass · To what, where: dervish, project, strong resemblance, fate, way · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (dervish, fate), 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	As	as	ADP	_	4 case	case
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 case	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 case	det
4	case	case	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 tried	obl
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 brother	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 brother	nmod:poss
7	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 case	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 case	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 dervish	det
10	dervish	dervish	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 tried	nsubj
11	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	to	to	PART	_	13 make	mark
13	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 tried	xcomp
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 make	obj
15	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 make	xcomp
16	up	up	ADP	_	15 give	compound:prt
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 project	nmod:poss
18	project	project	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 give	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 told	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 told	cc
21	even	even	ADV	_	22 told	advmod
22	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 tried	conj
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 told	iobj
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 weeks	mark
25	only	only	ADV	_	28 weeks	advmod
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 weeks	det
27	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 weeks	amod
28	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 told	ccomp
29	since	since	ADP	_	32 man	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 man	det
31	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 man	amod
32	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 told	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 bearing	punct
34	bearing	bear	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 told	advcl
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 resemblance	det
36	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 resemblance	amod
37	resemblance	resemblance	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 bearing	obj
38	to	to	ADP	_	39 himself	case
39	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	34 bearing	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 passed	punct
41	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 passed	aux
42	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	22 told	ccomp
43	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	44 way	det
44	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 passed	obj
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 come	punct
46	but	but	CCONJ	_	49 come	cc
47	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	49 come	aux
48	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	49 come	advmod
49	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 tried	conj
50	back	back	ADV	_	49 come	advmod
51	again	again	ADV	_	49 come	advmod
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 tried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	try	past	the dervish				as the case of fate's brother	vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	make not said to happen	to-infinitive	the dervish not said here	dervish				tree rules
3	give up not said to happen	infinitive	dervish not said here	fate's project				vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent project=Source
4	tell speech: assert	past	the dervish not said here		dervish	since a young man		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
5	bear	gerund	the dervish not said here	a strong resemblance	fate			vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent resemblance=Patient
6	pass	past · perfect		that way				vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme way=Trajectory
7	not come back	past	the dervish not said here			again		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	project		fate					nom project «act 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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