The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 43, sentence 92

All three tried to guess the meaning of the singular counsel, but they were forced at last to admit the explanation was beyond them, and they must be content blindly to obey.

Who acts: three, brothers · What happens: try, guess, force, admit, be, obey · To what, where: meaning, brothers, last, explanation, singular counsel

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 (three, brothers), 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 three	det
2	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 tried	nsubj
3	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 guess	mark
5	guess	guess	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 tried	xcomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 meaning	det
7	meaning	meaning	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 guess	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	11 counsel	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 counsel	det
10	singular	singular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 counsel	amod
11	counsel	counsel	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 meaning	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 forced	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 forced	cc
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 forced	nsubj:pass
15	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 forced	aux:pass
16	forced	force	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 tried	parataxis
17	at	at	ADP	_	18 last	case
18	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 forced	obl
19	to	to	PART	_	20 admit	mark
20	admit	admit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 forced	xcomp
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 explanation	det
22	explanation	explanation	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 admit	obj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 them	cop
24	beyond	beyond	ADP	_	25 them	case
25	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 explanation	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 content	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 content	cc
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 content	nsubj
29	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 content	aux
30	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	31 content	cop
31	content	content	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 forced	conj
32	blindly	blindly	ADV	_	31 content	advmod
33	to	to	PART	_	34 obey	mark
34	obey	obey	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 content	xcomp
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 tried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	try	past	all three				vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	guess not said to happen	to-infinitive	all three not said here	the meaning of the singular counsel			vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meaning=Theme
3	force	past · passive		brothers = brother	last		vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
4	admit speech: other	to-infinitive	brothers = brother not said here	the explanation			vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent explanation=Theme
5	is	past				beyond brothers = brother	tree rules
6	is	must	brothers = brother			blindly, content property	tree rules
7	obey	to-infinitive	brothers = brother not said here				vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
8	mean			the singular counsel			nom meaning «communication 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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