The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 12, sentence 93

I have had a long journey, but arrived this evening in the city, where I met my brother Calenders at the gate, being strangers like myself.

Who acts: I · What happens: have, arrive, meet, be · To what, where: long journey, city, brother Calenders, gate, strangers

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), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 had	nsubj
2	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 had	aux
3	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 journey	det
5	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 journey	amod
6	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 arrived	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 arrived	cc
9	arrived	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 had	parataxis
10	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 evening	det
11	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 arrived	obl:unmarked
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 city	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 city	det
14	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 arrived	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 met	punct
16	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	18 met	advmod
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 met	nsubj
18	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 arrived	conj
19	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 Calenders	nmod:poss
20	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 Calenders	compound
21	Calenders	calender	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 met	obj
22	at	at	ADP	_	24 gate	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 gate	det
24	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 met	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 strangers	punct
26	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 strangers	cop
27	strangers	stranger	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 met	obl
28	like	like	ADP	_	29 myself	case
29	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	27 strangers	nmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present · perfect	I	a long journey				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent journey=Patient
2	arrive	past			the city	evening		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	meet	past	I	my brother Calenders	the gate			vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent calender=Co-Agent
4	is a	gerund		strangers			like myself	tree rules

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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