The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 43, sentence 21

It had been the intention of the party to stop and tell their adventures to the dervish, but they found to their sorrow that he was dead, whether from old age, or whether from the feeling that his task was done, they never knew.

Who acts: rest, Bahman, Perviz · What happens: be, stop, tell, find, do, not know · To what, where: intention, adventures, dervish, task, old age · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (rest, Bahman, Perviz), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 intention	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 intention	aux
3	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 intention	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 intention	det
5	intention	intention	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 party	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 party	det
8	party	party	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 intention	nmod
9	to	to	PART	_	10 stop	mark
10	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 party	acl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 tell	cc
12	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 stop	conj
13	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 adventures	nmod:poss
14	adventures	adventure	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 tell	obj
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 dervish	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 dervish	det
17	dervish	dervish	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 tell	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 found	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 found	cc
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 found	nsubj
21	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 intention	parataxis
22	to	to	ADP	_	24 sorrow	case
23	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 sorrow	nmod:poss
24	sorrow	sorrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 found	obl
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 dead	mark
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 dead	nsubj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 dead	cop
28	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 found	advcl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 knew	punct
30	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	48 knew	mark
31	from	from	ADP	_	33 age	case
32	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 age	amod
33	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 knew	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 knew	punct
35	or	or	CCONJ	_	48 knew	cc
36	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	48 knew	mark
37	from	from	ADP	_	39 feeling	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 feeling	det
39	feeling	feeling	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 knew	obl
40	that	that	SCONJ	_	44 done	mark
41	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 task	nmod:poss
42	task	task	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 done	nsubj
43	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 done	aux:pass
44	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	39 feeling	acl
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 feeling	punct
46	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 knew	nsubj
47	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	48 knew	advmod
48	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 found	conj
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 intention	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past · perfect	rest	the intention			of the party	tree rules
2	stop	to-infinitive	rest not said here					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	tell speech: assert	infinitive	rest not said here	Bahman's adventures	the dervish			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent adventure=Topic to dervish=Recipient
4	find	past	Bahman				to Bahman's sorrow	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
5	is	past	Perviz				dead property	tree rules
6	do	past · passive		Perviz's task				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
7	not know	past	Bahman			from old age	from the feeling	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
8	adventure		Bahman					nom adventure «act transitive»: poss=agent
9	sorrow		Bahman					nom sorrow «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent
10	task		Perviz					nom task «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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