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The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 9, sentence 51

Of course it was not long before his reputation reached the ears of the man who envied him, and this wicked wretch resolved never to rest till he had in some way worked ill to the dervish whom he hated.

Who acts: course, reputation, man, wicked wretch, fame · What happens: not be, reach, envy, resolve, not rest, have · To what, where: ears, fame, dervish

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 (course, reputation, man, wicked wretch), 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

casefixednsubjcopadvmodoblmarknmod:possnsubjdetobjcasedetnmodnsubjacl:relclobjpunctccdetamodnsubjconjadvmodmarkxcompmarknsubjadvclcasedetoblccompxcompcasedetoblobjnsubjacl:relclpunctrootOfADPcourseNOUNitPRONwasAUXnotPARTlongADVbeforeSCONJhisPRONreputationNOUNreachedVERBtheDETearsNOUNofADPtheDETmanNOUNwhoPRONenviedVERBhimPRON,PUNCTandCCONJthisDETwickedADJwretchNOUNresolvedVERBneverADVtoPARTrestVERBtillSCONJhePRONhadVERBinADPsomeDETwayNOUNworkedVERBillADJtoADPtheDETdervishNOUNwhomPRONhePRONhatedVERB.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1OfofADP_6 longcase
2coursecourseNOUNNumber=Sing1 Offixed
3ititPRONCase=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs6 longnsubj
4wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin6 longcop
5notnotPARTPolarity=Neg6 longadvmod
6longlongADVDegree=Pos10 reachedobl
7beforebeforeSCONJ_10 reachedmark
8hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs9 reputationnmod:poss
9reputationreputationNOUNNumber=Sing10 reachednsubj
10reachedreachVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
11thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art12 earsdet
12earsearNOUNNumber=Plur10 reachedobj
13ofofADP_15 mancase
14thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art15 mandet
15manmanNOUNNumber=Sing12 earsnmod
16whowhoPRONPronType=Rel17 enviednsubj
17enviedenvyVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin15 manacl:relcl
18himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs17 enviedobj
19,,PUNCT_24 resolvedpunct
20andandCCONJ_24 resolvedcc
21thisthisDETNumber=Sing PronType=Dem23 wretchdet
22wickedwickedADJDegree=Pos23 wretchamod
23wretchwretchNOUNNumber=Sing24 resolvednsubj
24resolvedresolveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin10 reachedconj
25neverneverADVPronType=Neg27 restadvmod
26totoPART_27 restmark
27restrestVERBVerbForm=Inf24 resolvedxcomp
28tilltillSCONJ_30 hadmark
29hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs30 hadnsubj
30hadhaveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin27 restadvcl
31ininADP_33 waycase
32somesomeDETPronType=Ind33 waydet
33waywayNOUNNumber=Sing34 workedobl
34workedworkVERBMood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin30 hadccomp
35illillADJDegree=Pos34 workedxcomp
36totoADP_38 dervishcase
37thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art38 dervishdet
38dervishdervishNOUNNumber=Sing35 illobl
39whomwhomPRONPronType=Rel41 hatedobj
40hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs41 hatednsubj
41hatedhateVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin38 dervishacl:relcl
42..PUNCT_10 reachedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1not ispastcourselong propertytree rules
2reachpastfame's reputationthe ears of the manvn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent ear=Theme
3envypastthe manfamevn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
4resolvepastthis wicked wretchtree rules
5not restto-infinitivethis wicked wretch not said herevn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6havepastfametree rules
7workpastfame not said herein some way; ill propertyvn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in way=Theme
8hatepastfamethe dervishvn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer whom=Stimulus
9reputefamenom reputation «state 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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