The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 5, sentence 63
The grand-vizir tried to persuade the Sultan not to go, but in vain.
Who acts: grand vizir · What happens: try, persuade, not go · To what, where: Sultan
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (grand vizir), 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 | 4 vizir | det |
| 2 | grand | grand | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 vizir | amod |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 grand | punct |
| 4 | vizir | vizir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tried | nsubj |
| 5 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 persuade | mark |
| 7 | persuade | persuade | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 tried | xcomp |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Sultan | det |
| 9 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 persuade | obj |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 go | advmod |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 go | mark |
| 12 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 persuade | advcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 vain | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 vain | cc |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 vain | case |
| 16 | vain | vain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 tried | parataxis |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 tried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | past | the grand vizir | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | persuade not said to happen | to-infinitive | the grand vizir not said here | the Sultan | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sultan=Patient | ||||
| 3 | not go | to-infinitive | the grand vizir not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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