The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 7, sentence 12

But the Caliph, who was not accustomed to be contradicted, rejected this advice, and it was resolved after a little more talking that the question should be put by the porter.

Who acts: porter · What happens: not accustom, contradict, reject, resolve, talk, put · To what, where: Caliph, advice, question

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (porter), 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	_	8 accustomed	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Caliph	det
3	Caliph	Caliph	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 accustomed	nsubj:pass
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 accustomed	punct
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 accustomed	nsubj:pass
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 accustomed	aux:pass
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 accustomed	advmod
8	accustomed	accustom	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	to	to	PART	_	11 contradicted	mark
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 contradicted	aux:pass
11	contradicted	contradict	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 accustomed	xcomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 rejected	punct
13	rejected	reject	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 contradicted	conj
14	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 advice	det
15	advice	advice	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 rejected	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 resolved	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 resolved	cc
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 resolved	nsubj:pass
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 resolved	aux:pass
20	resolved	resolve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 accustomed	conj
21	after	after	SCONJ	_	25 talking	mark
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 little	det
23	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 more	obl:unmarked
24	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	25 talking	advmod
25	talking	talk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 resolved	advcl
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 put	mark
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 question	det
28	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 put	nsubj:pass
29	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 put	aux
30	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	31 put	aux:pass
31	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 talking	advcl
32	by	by	ADP	_	34 porter	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 porter	det
34	porter	porter	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 put	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 accustomed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	not accustom	past · passive		the Caliph	tree rules
2	contradict	to-infinitive · passive			tree rules
3	reject	participle		this advice	vn reject-77.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent advice=Theme
4	resolve	past · passive		advice	tree rules
5	talk	gerund			vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	put	should · passive	the porter	the question	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent subject=Goal

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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