The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 13, sentence 11

The porter, who had often heard people speak of the immense wealth of Sindbad, could not help feeling envious of one whose lot seemed to be as happy as his own was miserable.

Who acts: porter, people, lot · What happens: hear, speak, not help, feel, seem, be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (porter, people, lot), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 porter	det
2	porter	porter	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 help	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 heard	punct
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 heard	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 heard	aux
6	often	often	ADV	_	7 heard	advmod
7	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 porter	acl:relcl
8	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 speak	nsubj
9	speak	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 heard	ccomp
10	of	of	ADP	_	13 wealth	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 wealth	det
12	immense	immense	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 wealth	amod
13	wealth	wealth	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 speak	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 Sindbad	case
15	Sindbad	Sindbad	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 wealth	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 porter	punct
17	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 help	aux
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 help	advmod
19	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
20	feeling	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	19 help	xcomp
21	envious	envious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 feeling	xcomp
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 one	case
23	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 envious	obl
24	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	25 lot	nmod:poss
25	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 seemed	nsubj
26	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 one	acl:relcl
27	to	to	PART	_	30 happy	mark
28	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	30 happy	cop
29	as	as	ADV	_	30 happy	advmod
30	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 seemed	xcomp
31	as	as	ADP	_	33 own	case
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 own	nmod:poss
33	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 happy	obl
34	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 miserable	cop
35	miserable	miserable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 happy	conj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 help	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	hear	past · perfect	the porter	often property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	speak speech: other	present	people	of the immense wealth of Sindbad	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	not help	could	the porter		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	feel not said to happen	gerund	the porter not said here	envious property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
5	seem	past	lot		vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
6	is	to-infinitive	lot not said here	as Sindbad's own; happy property	tree rules
7	is	past	lot not said here	miserable property	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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