The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 6, sentence 82

He was burning to inquire the reason of it all, but was silenced by Zobeida's request, so he tried to rouse himself and to take his part in the conversation, which was very lively, the subject of discussion being the many different sorts of pleasures that there were in the world.

Who acts: Caliph, request, conversation, Zobeida · What happens: burn, inquire, silence, try, rouse, take · To what, where: reason, Caliph, part, conversation, many different sorts

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 (Caliph, request, conversation, 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 burning	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 burning	aux
3	burning	burn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 inquire	mark
5	inquire	inquire	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 burning	xcomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 reason	det
7	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 inquire	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 it	case
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 reason	nmod
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 it	det
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 silenced	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 silenced	cc
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 silenced	aux:pass
14	silenced	silence	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 burning	parataxis
15	by	by	ADP	_	18 request	case
16	Zobeida	Zobeida	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 request	nmod:poss
17	's	's	PART	_	16 Zobeida	case
18	request	request	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 silenced	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 tried	punct
20	so	so	ADV	_	22 tried	advmod
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 tried	nsubj
22	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 silenced	conj
23	to	to	PART	_	24 rouse	mark
24	rouse	rouse	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 tried	xcomp
25	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	24 rouse	obj
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 take	cc
27	to	to	PART	_	28 take	mark
28	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 rouse	conj
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 part	nmod:poss
30	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 take	obj
31	in	in	ADP	_	33 conversation	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 conversation	det
33	conversation	conversation	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 take	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 lively	punct
35	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	38 lively	nsubj
36	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 lively	cop
37	very	very	ADV	_	38 lively	advmod
38	lively	lively	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 conversation	conj
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 subject	punct
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 subject	det
41	subject	subject	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 conversation	conj
42	of	of	ADP	_	43 discussion	case
43	discussion	discussion	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 subject	nmod
44	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	48 sorts	cop
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 sorts	det
46	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 sorts	amod
47	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 sorts	amod
48	sorts	sort	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 take	obl
49	of	of	ADP	_	50 pleasures	case
50	pleasures	pleasure	NOUN	Number=Plur	48 sorts	nmod
51	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	53 were	obj
52	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	53 were	expl
53	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	50 pleasures	acl:relcl
54	in	in	ADP	_	56 world	case
55	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	56 world	det
56	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 were	obl
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 burning	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	burn	past · progressive	Caliph				tree rules
2	inquire speech: other	to-infinitive	Caliph not said here	the reason of reason			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent reason=Recipient
3	silence	past · passive	Zobeida's request				vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent
4	try	past	Caliph				vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	rouse not said to happen	to-infinitive	Caliph not said here	Caliph			vn stimulate-59.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Patient
6	take	to-infinitive	Caliph not said here	Caliph's part	the conversation and the subject of discussion		vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent part=Value in conversation=Location
7	is	past	the conversation and the subject of discussion			lively property	tree rules
8	is a	gerund		the many different sorts		of pleasures	tree rules
9	request		Zobeida				nom request «communication 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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