The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 42, sentence 72

So the dervish repeated his tale, and dwelt more firmly than before on the clamour of the voices, the horrors of the black stones, which were once living men, and the difficulties of climbing the mountain; and pointed out that the chief means of success was never to look behind till you had the cage in your grasp.

Who acts: dervish, black stones, difficulties, chief, you, voices · What happens: repeat, dwell, be, climb, point out, mean · To what, where: tale, living men, mountain, cage, grasp · 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, black stones, difficulties, chief), 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 repeated	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 dervish	det
3	dervish	dervish	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 repeated	nsubj
4	repeated	repeat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 tale	nmod:poss
6	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 repeated	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 dwelt	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 dwelt	cc
9	dwelt	dwell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 repeated	conj
10	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	11 firmly	advmod
11	firmly	firmly	ADV	_	9 dwelt	advmod
12	than	than	ADP	_	16 clamour	case
13	before	before	ADP	_	16 clamour	case
14	on	on	ADP	_	16 clamour	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 clamour	det
16	clamour	clamour	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 dwelt	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 voices	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 voices	det
19	voices	voice	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 clamour	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 horrors	punct
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 horrors	det
22	horrors	horror	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 voices	conj
23	of	of	ADP	_	26 stones	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 stones	det
25	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 stones	amod
26	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 horrors	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 men	punct
28	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 men	nsubj
29	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 men	cop
30	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	32 men	advmod
31	living	living	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 men	amod
32	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 stones	conj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 difficulties	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 difficulties	cc
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 difficulties	det
36	difficulties	difficulty	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 repeated	obl
37	of	of	SCONJ	_	38 climbing	mark
38	climbing	climb	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	36 difficulties	acl
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 mountain	det
40	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 climbing	obj
41	;	;	PUNCT	_	43 pointed	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 pointed	cc
43	pointed	point	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 repeated	conj
44	out	out	ADP	_	43 pointed	compound:prt
45	that	that	SCONJ	_	48 means	mark
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 chief	det
47	chief	chief	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 means	nsubj
48	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	43 pointed	advcl
49	of	of	ADP	_	50 success	case
50	success	success	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 look	obl
51	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	54 look	cop
52	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	54 look	advmod
53	to	to	PART	_	54 look	mark
54	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	48 means	ccomp
55	behind	behind	ADP	_	58 had	mark
56	till	till	SCONJ	_	58 had	mark
57	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	58 had	nsubj
58	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	54 look	advcl
59	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	60 cage	det
60	cage	cage	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 had	obj
61	in	in	ADP	_	63 grasp	case
62	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	63 grasp	nmod:poss
63	grasp	grasp	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 had	obl
64	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 repeated	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	repeat	past	the dervish	dervish's tale		the difficulties obl	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tale=Eventuality
2	dwell	past	the dervish not said here			than the clamour of the voices and the horrors of the black stones and living men; firmly property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is a	past	the black stones and living men	living men		once property	tree rules
4	climb	gerund	the difficulties not said here	the mountain			vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location mountain=Theme
5	point out	past	the dervish not said here				vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	mean	present	the chief				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	not is not said to happen	past				of success; look property	tree rules
8	have	past	you	the cage	your grasp		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cage=Patient
9	tell		dervish				nom tale «communication intransitive»: poss=agent
10	clamour		the voices and the horrors of the black stones and living men				nom clamour «communication intransitive»: of=agent
11	grasp		your				nom grasp «cognition 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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