The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 7, sentence 40

Those that will tell us their histories and their reasons for coming here shall be allowed to leave unhurt; those who refuse--" And she paused, but in a moment the porter, who understood that he had only to relate his story to set himself free from this terrible danger, immediately broke in,

Who acts: reasons, Those, anger, porter, world · What happens: tell, come, allow, leave, refuse, pause · To what, where: histories, us, Those, story, world · 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 (reasons, Those, anger, 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	Those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	16 allowed	nsubj:pass
2	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 tell	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 tell	aux
4	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Those	acl:relcl
5	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 tell	iobj
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 histories	nmod:poss
7	histories	history	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 tell	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 reasons	cc
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 reasons	nmod:poss
10	reasons	reason	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Those	conj
11	for	for	SCONJ	_	12 coming	mark
12	coming	come	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 reasons	acl
13	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 coming	advmod
14	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 allowed	aux
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 allowed	aux:pass
16	allowed	allow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
17	to	to	PART	_	18 leave	mark
18	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 allowed	xcomp
19	unhurt	unhurt	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 leave	xcomp
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 those	punct
21	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	16 allowed	obl
22	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 refuse	nsubj
23	refuse	refuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 those	acl:relcl
24	--	--	PUNCT	_	23 refuse	punct
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 allowed	punct
26	And	and	CCONJ	_	28 paused	cc
27	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 paused	nsubj
28	paused	pause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 allowed	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 moment	punct
30	but	but	CCONJ	_	33 moment	cc
31	in	in	ADP	_	33 moment	case
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 moment	det
33	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 paused	obj
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 porter	det
35	porter	porter	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 moment	appos
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 understood	punct
37	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	38 understood	nsubj
38	understood	understand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 porter	acl:relcl
39	that	that	SCONJ	_	41 had	mark
40	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 had	nsubj
41	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 understood	ccomp
42	only	only	ADV	_	44 relate	advmod
43	to	to	PART	_	44 relate	mark
44	relate	relate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 had	xcomp
45	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	46 story	nmod:poss
46	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 relate	obj
47	to	to	PART	_	48 set	mark
48	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	44 relate	advcl
49	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	48 set	obj
50	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 set	xcomp
51	from	from	ADP	_	54 danger	case
52	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	54 danger	det
53	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	54 danger	amod
54	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 free	obl
55	,	,	PUNCT	_	57 broke	punct
56	immediately	immediately	ADV	_	57 broke	advmod
57	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 relate	parataxis
58	in	in	ADV	_	57 broke	advmod
59	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 moment	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	future		Zobeida's histories	us				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent we=Recipient history=Topic
2	come	gerund	Zobeida's reasons not said here			here			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	allow	shall · passive		Those				those obl	vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
4	leave not said to happen	to-infinitive	Those not said here					unhurt property	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	refuse	present							vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
6	pause in a quote	past	anger				moment		vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
7	understand in a quote	past	the porter						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
8	have in a quote	past	world						tree rules
9	relate in a quote	to-infinitive	world not said here	world's story					vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Theme
10	set in a quote	to-infinitive	world not said here	world				free property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient himself=Result
11	break in in a quote	past						immediately property	vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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