The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 9, sentence 38

The genius, however, paid no attention to my prayers, but said sternly, "That is the way in which a genius treats the woman who has betrayed him.

Who acts: genius, That, woman, my · What happens: pay, say, be, treat, betray, pray · To what, where: attention, way, woman, man · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (genius, That, woman, my), 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 genius	det
2	genius	genius	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 paid	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 genius	punct
4	however	however	ADV	_	6 paid	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 however	punct
6	paid	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 attention	det
8	attention	attention	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 paid	obj
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 prayers	case
10	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 prayers	nmod:poss
11	prayers	prayer	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 paid	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 said	cc
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 paid	conj
15	sternly	sternly	ADV	_	14 said	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 way	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 way	punct
18	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	21 way	nsubj
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 way	cop
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 way	det
21	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 said	ccomp
22	in	in	ADP	_	23 which	case
23	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 treats	obl
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 genius	det
25	genius	genius	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 treats	nsubj
26	treats	treat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 way	parataxis
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 woman	det
28	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 treats	obj
29	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 betrayed	nsubj
30	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 betrayed	aux
31	betrayed	betray	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	28 woman	acl:relcl
32	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 betrayed	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 paid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	pay	past	the genius	no attention			to my prayers; however property	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attention=Asset
2	say speech: assert	past	the genius not said here				sternly property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is a in a quote	present	That	the way				tree rules
4	treat in a quote	present	a genius		the woman	the way		vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent woman=Recipient
5	betray in a quote	present · perfect	the woman	man				tree rules
6	pray		my					nom prayer «act intransitive»: 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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