The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 12, sentence 48

As soon as they saw me they rose and uttered words of welcome, and even forced me to take possession of a seat that was higher than their own, though my proper place was at their feet.

Who acts: ladies, me, seat, proper place · What happens: see, rise, utter, force, take, be · To what, where: me, words, possession, feet, seat

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ladies, me, seat, proper place), 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	As	as	ADV	_	2 soon	advmod
2	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 saw	advmod
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	5 saw	mark
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 saw	nsubj
5	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 saw	obj
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 rose	nsubj
8	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 saw	conj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 uttered	cc
10	uttered	utter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 rose	conj
11	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 uttered	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 welcome	case
13	welcome	welcome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 words	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 forced	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 forced	cc
16	even	even	ADV	_	17 forced	advmod
17	forced	force	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 saw	parataxis
18	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 forced	obj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 take	mark
20	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 forced	xcomp
21	possession	possession	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 take	obj
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 seat	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 seat	det
24	seat	seat	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 possession	nmod
25	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 higher	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 higher	cop
27	higher	high	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	24 seat	acl:relcl
28	than	than	ADP	_	30 own	case
29	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 own	nmod:poss
30	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 higher	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 feet	punct
32	though	though	SCONJ	_	39 feet	mark
33	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 place	nmod:poss
34	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 place	amod
35	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 feet	nsubj
36	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 feet	cop
37	at	at	ADP	_	39 feet	case
38	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 feet	nmod:poss
39	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 forced	conj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	see	past	ladies = lady	me		soon property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus
2	rise	past	ladies = lady				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	utter speech: other	past	ladies = lady not said here	words of welcome			vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic
4	force	past		me			vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic
5	take	to-infinitive	me not said here	possession of a seat			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent possession=Theme
6	is	past	a seat			than ladies's own; high property	tree rules
7	is	past	my proper place		ladies's feet		tree rules
8	possess			a seat			nom possession «act transitive»: of=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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