The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 7, sentence 31

But the vizir, wiser than his master, wished to conceal from the public the affront they had received, and merely answered, "After all, we have only got what we deserved."

Who acts: others, we · What happens: wish, conceal, receive, answer, get, deserve · To what, where: master, affront, public · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (others, we), 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	_	5 wiser	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 vizir	det
3	vizir	vizir	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wiser	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 wiser	punct
5	wiser	wise	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
6	than	than	ADP	_	8 master	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 master	nmod:poss
8	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wiser	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 wished	punct
10	wished	wish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 master	acl
11	to	to	PART	_	12 conceal	mark
12	conceal	conceal	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 wished	xcomp
13	from	from	ADP	_	15 public	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 public	det
15	public	public	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 conceal	obl
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 affront	det
17	affront	affront	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 conceal	obj
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 received	nsubj
19	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 received	aux
20	received	receive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 affront	acl:relcl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 answered	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 answered	cc
23	merely	merely	ADV	_	24 answered	advmod
24	answered	answer	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 wiser	parataxis
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 got	punct
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	33 got	punct
27	After	after	ADP	_	28 all	case
28	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	33 got	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 all	punct
30	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 got	nsubj
31	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 got	aux
32	only	only	ADV	_	33 got	advmod
33	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	24 answered	parataxis
34	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	36 deserved	obj
35	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	36 deserved	nsubj
36	deserved	deserve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 got	conj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 wiser	punct
38	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 wiser	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wish	participle		man's master not said here				vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	conceal not said to happen	to-infinitive		the affront	the public			vn concealment-16 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent affront=Patient from public=Beneficiary
3	receive	past · perfect	others = other	the affront not said here				vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent affront=Theme
4	answer speech: assert	participle					merely property	tree rules
5	get in a quote	present · perfect	we			after all		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
6	deserve in a quote	past	we					tree rules

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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