The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 5, sentence 74

Still the Sultan saw no one, till he heard a plaintive cry, and a voice which said, "Oh that I could die, for I am too unhappy to wish to live any longer!"

Who acts: Sultan, voice · What happens: still, see, hear, say, die, be · To what, where: one, plaintive cry · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Sultan, voice), 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	Still	still	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 saw	ccomp
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Sultan	det
3	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 saw	nsubj
4	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 one	det
6	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 saw	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 heard	punct
8	till	till	SCONJ	_	10 heard	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 heard	nsubj
10	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 saw	conj
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 cry	det
12	plaintive	plaintive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 cry	amod
13	cry	cry	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 heard	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 said	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 said	cc
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 voice	det
17	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 said	nsubj
18	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 said	nsubj
19	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 saw	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 die	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	26 die	punct
22	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	26 die	discourse
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 die	mark
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 die	nsubj
25	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 die	aux
26	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 said	ccomp
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 unhappy	punct
28	for	for	SCONJ	_	32 unhappy	mark
29	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 unhappy	nsubj
30	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 unhappy	cop
31	too	too	ADV	_	32 unhappy	advmod
32	unhappy	unhappy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 die	parataxis
33	to	to	PART	_	34 wish	mark
34	wish	wish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 unhappy	advcl
35	to	to	PART	_	36 live	mark
36	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 wish	xcomp
37	any	any	ADV	_	38 longer	advmod
38	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	36 live	advmod
39	!	!	PUNCT	_	26 die	punct
40	"	"	PUNCT	_	26 die	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	still	infinitive				vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	see	past	the Sultan	no one		tree rules
3	hear	past	Sultan	a plaintive cry		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer cry=Stimulus
4	say speech: express	past	a voice			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	die in a quote	could	a voice = voice			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
6	is in a quote	present	a voice = voice		unhappy property	tree rules
7	wish in a quote	to-infinitive	a voice = voice not said here			vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
8	live not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	a voice = voice not said here		long property	vn exist-47.1-1 «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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