The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 9, sentence 74

He told them of the attempt on his life made by his guest of the previous day, and then retired into his cell.

Who acts: dervish · What happens: tell, make, retire · To what, where: words, life, cell · 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 (dervish), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 told	nsubj
2	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 told	iobj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 attempt	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 attempt	det
6	attempt	attempt	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 told	obl
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 life	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 life	nmod:poss
9	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 attempt	nmod
10	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 life	acl
11	by	by	ADP	_	13 guest	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 guest	nmod:poss
13	guest	guest	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 made	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	17 day	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 day	det
16	previous	previous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 day	amod
17	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 guest	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 retired	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 retired	cc
20	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	21 retired	advmod
21	retired	retire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 told	conj
22	into	into	ADP	_	24 cell	case
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 cell	nmod:poss
24	cell	cell	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 retired	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	dervish		words = word			of the attempt on dervish's life	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient
2	make	participle		dervish's life not said here				by dervish's guest of the previous day	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
3	retire	past	dervish not said here			dervish's cell	then		vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=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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