The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 12, sentence 8

While I was still staring at it, there came towards me a tall old man, accompanied by ten young men, all handsome, and all blind of the right eye.

Who acts: I, tall old man · What happens: stare, come, accompany · To what, where: tall old man

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 (I, tall old man), 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	While	while	SCONJ	_	5 staring	mark
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 staring	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 staring	aux
4	still	still	ADV	_	5 staring	advmod
5	staring	stare	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 came	advcl
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 it	case
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 staring	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 staring	punct
9	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	10 came	expl
10	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	towards	towards	ADP	_	12 me	case
12	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 came	obl
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 man	det
14	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 man	amod
15	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 man	amod
16	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 came	nsubj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 accompanied	punct
18	accompanied	accompany	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 man	acl
19	by	by	ADP	_	22 men	case
20	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 men	nummod
21	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 men	amod
22	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 accompanied	obl:agent
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 handsome	punct
24	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	25 handsome	det
25	handsome	handsome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 men	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 blind	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 blind	cc
28	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	29 blind	det
29	blind	blind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 came	conj
30	of	of	ADP	_	33 eye	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 eye	det
32	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 eye	amod
33	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 blind	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stare	past · progressive	I			still	at haste	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at it=Theme
2	come	past	a tall old man		there		towards me	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme towards i=Initial_Location
3	accompany	participle		a tall old man not said here				vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: 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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