The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 13, sentence 29

For Sindbad, passing by the open window before the feast began, had heard his complaint and therefore had sent for him.

Who acts: passing, Sindbad · What happens: pass, begin, hear, send, complain · To what, where: complaint

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 (passing, Sindbad), 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	For	for	ADP	_	2 Sindbad	case
2	Sindbad	Sindbad	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 began	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Sindbad	punct
4	passing	pass	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 began	csubj
5	by	by	ADP	_	8 window	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 window	det
7	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 window	amod
8	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 passing	obl
9	before	before	ADP	_	11 feast	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 feast	det
11	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 passing	obl
12	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 heard	punct
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 heard	aux
15	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 began	parataxis
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 complaint	nmod:poss
17	complaint	complaint	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 heard	obj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 sent	cc
19	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	21 sent	advmod
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 sent	aux
21	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 heard	conj
22	for	for	ADP	_	23 him	case
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 sent	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	pass	gerund			before the feast	by the open window	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by window=Location
2	begin	past	passing			for Sindbad	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	hear	past · perfect		Sindbad's complaint			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer complaint=Stimulus
4	send	past · perfect				for Sindbad; therefore property	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	complain		Sindbad				nom complaint «state intransitive»: 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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