The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 6, sentence 30

And after telling some stories to prove his point, he ended by entreating them to let him stay and make a fourth at their dinner.

Who acts: man · What happens: tell, prove, end, entreat, let, stay · To what, where: stories, point, women, man, fourth, dinner · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	12 ended	cc
2	after	after	SCONJ	_	3 telling	mark
3	telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 ended	advcl
4	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	5 stories	det
5	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 telling	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 prove	mark
7	prove	prove	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 telling	advcl
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 point	nmod:poss
9	point	point	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 prove	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 telling	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 ended	nsubj
12	ended	end	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	by	by	SCONJ	_	14 entreating	mark
14	entreating	entreat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 ended	advcl
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 entreating	obj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 let	mark
17	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 entreating	xcomp
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 let	obj
19	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 let	xcomp
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 make	cc
21	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 let	conj
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 fourth	det
23	fourth	fourth	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 make	obj
24	at	at	ADP	_	26 dinner	case
25	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 dinner	nmod:poss
26	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 make	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 ended	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	gerund	man not said here	some stories		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient
2	prove	to-infinitive	man not said here	man's point		vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent point=Theme
3	end	past	man			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
4	entreat	gerund	man not said here	women = woman		vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
5	let	to-infinitive	man not said here	man		tree rules
6	stay	infinitive	man not said here			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	make	infinitive	man not said here	a fourth	women's dinner	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fourth=Product
8	point		man			nom point «cognition 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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