The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 6, sentence 56

For on the door was written in letters of gold, "Whoso meddles in affairs that are no business of his, will hear truths that will not please him."

Who acts: Whoso, that, truths · What happens: write, meddle, be, hear, not please, letter · To what, where: door, letters, affairs, business, truths, Amina

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 (Whoso, that, truths), 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	For	for	SCONJ	_	6 written	mark
2	on	on	ADP	_	4 door	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 door	det
4	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 written	nsubj:pass
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 written	aux:pass
6	written	write	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 meddles	advcl
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 letters	case
8	letters	letter	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 written	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 gold	case
10	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 letters	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 written	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 meddles	punct
13	Whoso	whoso	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 meddles	nsubj
14	meddles	meddle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	in	in	ADP	_	16 affairs	case
16	affairs	affair	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 meddles	obl
17	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 business	nsubj
18	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 business	cop
19	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	20 business	det
20	business	business	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 affairs	nmod
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 his	case
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 business	nmod:poss
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 hear	punct
24	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 hear	aux
25	hear	hear	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	22 his	parataxis
26	truths	truth	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 hear	obj
27	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 please	nsubj
28	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 please	aux
29	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	30 please	advmod
30	please	please	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 truths	acl:relcl
31	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 please	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	25 hear	punct
33	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 business	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	write	past · passive		the door	letters of gold	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in letter=Destination
2	meddle in a quote	present	Whoso		affairs	tree rules
3	is a in a quote	present	that	Amina's business		tree rules
4	hear in a quote	future		truths		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer truth=Stimulus
5	not please in a quote	future	truths	Amina		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer
6	letter			gold		nom letter «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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