The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 6, sentence 67

These words were the gayest and liveliest possible, and every now and then the singers had to stop to indulge the laughter which almost choked them.

Who acts: words, singers, laughter · What happens: be, have, stop, indulge, choke · To what, where: laughter, singers

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 (words, singers, laughter), 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	These	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	2 words	det
2	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 gayest	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 gayest	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 gayest	det
5	gayest	gay	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 liveliest	cc
7	liveliest	lively	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 gayest	conj
8	possible	possible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 liveliest	xcomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 every	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 every	cc
11	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	5 gayest	conj
12	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 had	advmod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 had	cc
14	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 had	advmod
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 singers	det
16	singers	singer	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 had	nsubj
17	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 every	acl:relcl
18	to	to	PART	_	19 stop	mark
19	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 had	xcomp
20	to	to	PART	_	21 indulge	mark
21	indulge	indulge	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 stop	xcomp
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 laughter	det
23	laughter	laughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 indulge	obj
24	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 choked	nsubj
25	almost	almost	ADV	_	26 choked	advmod
26	choked	choke	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 laughter	acl:relcl
27	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 choked	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 gayest	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	this words			gay property	tree rules
2	be		this words not said here			possible property	tree rules
3	have	past	the singers		now; then		tree rules
4	stop	to-infinitive	the singers not said here				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
5	indulge	to-infinitive	the singers not said here	the laughter			tree rules
6	choke	past	the laughter	singers = singer		almost property	vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme they=Destination

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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