The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 11, sentence 62

Hearing my words, the young man recovered himself, and when I had ended, he said, "The reasons, Prince, that have caused me to be buried in this place are so strange that they cannot but surprise you.

Who acts: young man, I, man, reasons, my · What happens: hear, recover, end, say, cause, bury · To what, where: words, man, place, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young man, I, man, reasons), 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	Hearing	hear	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 recovered	advcl
2	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 words	nmod:poss
3	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Hearing	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Hearing	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 man	det
6	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 man	amod
7	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 recovered	nsubj
8	recovered	recover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	8 recovered	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 said	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 said	cc
12	when	when	SCONJ	_	15 ended	mark
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 ended	nsubj
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 ended	aux
15	ended	end	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 said	advcl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 ended	punct
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 said	nsubj
18	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 recovered	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 reasons	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	22 reasons	punct
21	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 reasons	det
22	reasons	reason	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 strange	nsubj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 Prince	punct
24	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 reasons	appos
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 caused	punct
26	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 caused	nsubj
27	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 caused	aux
28	caused	cause	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	22 reasons	acl:relcl
29	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 caused	iobj
30	to	to	PART	_	32 buried	mark
31	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	32 buried	aux:pass
32	buried	bury	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 caused	advcl
33	in	in	ADP	_	35 place	case
34	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	35 place	det
35	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 buried	obl
36	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	38 strange	cop
37	so	so	ADV	_	38 strange	advmod
38	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 said	ccomp
39	that	that	SCONJ	_	44 surprise	mark
40	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 surprise	nsubj
41	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	44 surprise	aux
42	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	44 surprise	advmod
43	but	but	CCONJ	_	44 surprise	cc
44	surprise	surprise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 strange	advcl
45	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	44 surprise	obj
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 recovered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	hear	gerund	the young man not said here	my words				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus
2	recover	past	the young man	man				vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme
3	end	past · perfect	I					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
4	say speech: assert	past	man					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	cause in a quote	present · perfect	the reasons		man			vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition i=Patient
6	bury in a quote	to-infinitive · passive	the reasons not said here			this place		vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: in place=Destination
7	is in a quote	present	the reasons				strange property	tree rules
8	not surprise in a quote	can	reasons = reason	you				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus you=Experiencer
9	word		my					nom word «communication 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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