The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 43, sentence 100

The hunt began and continued till mid-day, when the heat became so great that they were obliged to leave off.

Who acts: hunt, heat · What happens: begin, continue, become, oblige, leave off · To what, where: pearls

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 43. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hunt, heat), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 hunt	det
2	hunt	hunt	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 began	nsubj
3	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 continued	cc
5	continued	continue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 began	conj
6	till	till	ADP	_	7 mid-day	case
7	mid-day	mid-day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 continued	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 became	punct
9	when	when	SCONJ	_	12 became	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 heat	det
11	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 became	nsubj
12	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 began	parataxis
13	so	so	ADV	_	14 great	advmod
14	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 became	xcomp
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 obliged	mark
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 obliged	nsubj
17	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 obliged	aux:pass
18	obliged	oblige	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 great	advcl
19	to	to	PART	_	20 leave	mark
20	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 obliged	xcomp
21	off	off	ADP	_	20 leave	compound:prt
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	the hunt				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	continue	past	the hunt not said here		till mid-day		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	become	past	the heat			great property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
4	oblige	past · passive		pearls = pearl			vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result
5	leave off	to-infinitive					vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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