The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 43, sentence 71

During dinner he led the conversation to various scientific subjects, and also to history, of which he was especially fond, but whatever topic they might be discussing he found that the views of the young men were always worth listening to. "

Who acts: Sultan, topic, views · What happens: lead, be, discuss, find, listen, view · To what, where: conversation, history, young men · 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 (Sultan, topic, views), 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	During	during	ADP	_	2 dinner	case
2	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 led	obl
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 led	nsubj
4	led	lead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 conversation	det
6	conversation	conversation	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 led	obj
7	to	to	ADP	_	10 subjects	case
8	various	various	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 subjects	amod
9	scientific	scientific	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 subjects	amod
10	subjects	subject	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 conversation	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 history	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 history	cc
13	also	also	ADV	_	15 history	advmod
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 history	case
15	history	history	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 led	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 fond	punct
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 which	case
18	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 fond	obl
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 fond	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 fond	cop
21	especially	especially	ADV	_	22 fond	advmod
22	fond	fond	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 history	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 discussing	punct
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	30 discussing	cc
25	whatever	whatever	DET	PronType=Int	26 topic	det
26	topic	topic	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 discussing	nsubj
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 discussing	nsubj
28	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 discussing	aux
29	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	30 discussing	aux
30	discussing	discuss	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 led	advcl
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 found	nsubj
32	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 discussing	parataxis
33	that	that	SCONJ	_	42 worth	mark
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 views	det
35	views	view	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 worth	nsubj
36	of	of	ADP	_	39 men	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 men	det
38	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 men	amod
39	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 views	nmod
40	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 worth	cop
41	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	42 worth	advmod
42	worth	worth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 found	ccomp
43	listening	listen	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	42 worth	csubj
44	to	to	ADP	_	43 listening	fixed
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 led	punct
46	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 led	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lead	past	Sultan	the conversation	history	during dinner	to various scientific subjects	vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent conversation=Theme to history=Destination
2	is	past	Sultan				of history; especially, fond property	tree rules
3	discuss speech: other	might · progressive	whatever topic					vn chit_chat-37.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	find	past	Sultan					vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
5	is	past	the views of the young men				always, worth property	tree rules
6	listen	gerund						vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
7	view			the young men				nom view «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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