The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 7, sentence 84

I longed to tell them what had become of the prince, about whose fate they felt the most dreadful anxiety, but the oath I had sworn kept me silent.

Who acts: I, excuses, oath, prince · What happens: long, tell, become, feel, swear, keep · To what, where: excuses, prince, dreadful anxiety, oath, me · 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 (I, excuses, oath, prince), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 longed	nsubj
2	longed	long	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 tell	mark
4	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 longed	xcomp
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 tell	iobj
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 become	nsubj
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 become	aux
8	become	become	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 tell	ccomp
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 prince	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 prince	det
11	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 become	xcomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 fate	punct
13	about	about	ADV	_	15 fate	advmod
14	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	15 fate	nmod:poss
15	fate	fate	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 prince	appos
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 felt	nsubj
17	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 fate	acl:relcl
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 anxiety	det
19	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	20 dreadful	advmod
20	dreadful	dreadful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 anxiety	amod
21	anxiety	anxiety	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 felt	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 kept	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	29 kept	cc
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 oath	det
25	oath	oath	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 kept	nsubj
26	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 sworn	nsubj
27	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 sworn	aux
28	sworn	swear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	25 oath	acl:relcl
29	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 longed	conj
30	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 kept	obj
31	silent	silent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 kept	xcomp
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 longed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	long	past	I				vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	tell speech: assert not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here		excuses = excuse		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
3	become	past · perfect		the prince			vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
4	feel	past	excuses = excuse	the dreadful anxiety			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anxiety=Theme
5	swear	past · perfect	I	the oath not said here			vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent oath=Eventuality
6	keep	past	the oath	me		silent property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
7	fate		the prince				nom fate «event 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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