The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 6, sentence 54
But she urged the matter so strongly that Zobeida was at last forced to consent. "
Who acts: Sadie, Zobeida · What happens: urge, force, consent · To what, where: matter, Zobeida
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 (Sadie, Zobeida), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 urged | cc |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 urged | nsubj |
| 3 | urged | urge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 matter | det |
| 5 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 urged | iobj |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 strongly | advmod |
| 7 | strongly | strongly | ADV | _ | 3 urged | advmod |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 forced | mark |
| 9 | Zobeida | Zobeida | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 forced | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 forced | aux:pass |
| 11 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 13 forced | mark |
| 12 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 forced | amod |
| 13 | forced | force | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 urged | ccomp |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 consent | mark |
| 15 | consent | consent | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 forced | xcomp |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 urged | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 urged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | urge | past | Sadie | the matter | strongly property | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent matter=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | force | past · passive | Zobeida | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | consent | to-infinitive | Zobeida not said here | vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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