The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 7, sentence 98

But their hearts were not so hard as they seemed, and my tears and prayers made them waver.

Who acts: hearts, tears, heads · What happens: be, make, waver · To what, where: heads

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 (hearts, tears, heads), 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	_	10 seemed	cc
2	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 hearts	nmod:poss
3	hearts	heart	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 seemed	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 seemed	cop
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 hard	advmod
6	so	so	ADV	_	7 hard	advmod
7	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 seemed	advmod
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	10 seemed	mark
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 seemed	nsubj
10	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 made	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 made	cc
13	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 tears	nmod:poss
14	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 made	nsubj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 prayers	cc
16	prayers	prayer	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 tears	conj
17	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 seemed	conj
18	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 made	obj
19	waver	waver	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 made	xcomp
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 seemed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	heads's hearts		hard, seem property	tree rules
2	make	past	my tears and prayers	heads = head		tree rules
3	waver	infinitive	heads = head not said here			vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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