The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 8, sentence 2

"I knew," he said, "that my son was tenderly attached to this lady, whom it was impossible he should ever marry.

Who acts: uncle, that · What happens: know, say, be, attach, marry · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (uncle, that), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 knew	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 knew	nsubj
3	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 said	ccomp
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 knew	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 knew	punct
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 said	nsubj
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 tenderly	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 tenderly	punct
10	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 tenderly	nsubj
11	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 son	nmod:poss
12	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 tenderly	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 tenderly	cop
14	tenderly	tenderly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 said	ccomp
15	attached	attach	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 tenderly	acl
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 lady	case
17	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	18 lady	det
18	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 attached	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 impossible	punct
20	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 impossible	obl
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 impossible	expl
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 impossible	cop
23	impossible	impossible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 lady	acl:relcl
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 marry	nsubj
25	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 marry	aux
26	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	27 marry	advmod
27	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 impossible	ccomp
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	know in a quote	past	uncle			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	say speech: assert	past	uncle			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	is in a quote	past	that		tenderly property	tree rules
4	attach in a quote	participle			to this lady	vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
5	is in a quote	past			this lady obl; impossible property	tree rules
6	marry in a quote	should	uncle	ever		vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «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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