The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 42, sentence 55

Then he charged the prince, as he valued his life, to take no heed of the clamour of voices that would pursue him up the mountain, and handing him a ball from the bag, which still seemed to be half full, he sent him on his way.

Who acts: dervish, voices · What happens: charge, value, take, pursue up, hand, seem · To what, where: prince, life, heed, dervish, ball, bag

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, voices), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 charged	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 charged	nsubj
3	charged	charge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 prince	det
5	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 charged	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 valued	punct
7	as	as	SCONJ	_	9 valued	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 valued	nsubj
9	valued	value	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 charged	conj
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 life	nmod:poss
11	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 valued	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 take	punct
13	to	to	PART	_	14 take	mark
14	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 valued	conj
15	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	16 heed	det
16	heed	heed	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 take	obj
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 clamour	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 clamour	det
19	clamour	clamour	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 heed	nmod
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 voices	case
21	voices	voice	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 clamour	nmod
22	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 pursue	nsubj
23	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 pursue	aux
24	pursue	pursue	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 voices	acl:relcl
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 pursue	obj
26	up	up	ADP	_	24 pursue	compound:prt
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 mountain	det
28	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 pursue	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 sent	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 sent	cc
31	handing	hand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	48 sent	advcl
32	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 handing	iobj
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 ball	det
34	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 handing	obj
35	from	from	ADP	_	37 bag	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 bag	det
37	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 handing	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 seemed	punct
39	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	41 seemed	obj
40	still	still	ADV	_	41 seemed	advmod
41	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 bag	acl:relcl
42	to	to	PART	_	45 full	mark
43	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	45 full	cop
44	half	half	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	45 full	advmod
45	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 seemed	xcomp
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 handing	punct
47	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 sent	nsubj
48	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 charged	conj
49	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 sent	obj
50	on	on	ADP	_	52 way	case
51	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	52 way	nmod:poss
52	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 sent	obl
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 charged	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	charge	past	dervish	the prince			then		vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location prince=Theme
2	value	past	dervish	dervish's life					vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer life=Stimulus
3	take	to-infinitive	dervish not said here	no heed of the clamour of voices					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heed=Theme
4	pursue up	would	voices	dervish					tree rules
5	hand	gerund	dervish not said here	a ball	dervish	the bag			vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination ball=Theme
6	seem	past		the bag			still		vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme which=Attribute
7	is	to-infinitive						full, half property	tree rules
8	send	past	dervish	Prince		dervish's way			vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
9	heed			the clamour of voices					nom heed «cognition transitive»: of=patient
10	clamour		voices						nom clamour «communication intransitive»: of=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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