The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 8, sentence 39

The robbers, however, only laughed, and declared that was none of their business, and, without more words, attacked us brutally.

Who acts: robbers · What happens: laugh, declare, be, attack · To what, where: none, us

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 (robbers), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 robbers	det
2	robbers	robber	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 laughed	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 robbers	punct
4	however	however	ADV	_	7 laughed	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 however	punct
6	only	only	ADV	_	7 laughed	advmod
7	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 declared	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 declared	cc
10	declared	declare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 laughed	conj
11	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 none	det
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 none	cop
13	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	10 declared	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 business	case
15	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 business	nmod:poss
16	business	business	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 none	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 attacked	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 attacked	cc
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 and	punct
20	without	without	ADP	_	22 words	case
21	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	22 words	amod
22	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 attacked	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 words	punct
24	attacked	attack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 laughed	conj
25	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 attacked	obj
26	brutally	brutally	ADV	_	24 attacked	advmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 laughed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	laugh	past	the robbers		however property	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	declare speech: other	past	the robbers not said here			vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
3	is a	past		none	of robbers's business	tree rules
4	attack	past	the robbers not said here	us	without more words; brutally property	vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=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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