The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 13, sentence 52

Presently I reached a great plain where a grazing horse was tethered, and as I stood looking at it I heard voices talking apparently underground, and in a moment a man appeared who asked me how I came upon the island.

Who acts: I, voices, man · What happens: reach, tether, stand, look, hear, talk · To what, where: great plain, grazing horse, voices, me, island

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 (I, voices, 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	Presently	presently	ADV	_	3 reached	advmod
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 reached	nsubj
3	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 plain	det
5	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 plain	amod
6	plain	plain	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 reached	obj
7	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	12 tethered	advmod
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 horse	det
9	grazing	grazing	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 horse	compound
10	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 tethered	nsubj:pass
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 tethered	aux:pass
12	tethered	tether	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 plain	acl:relcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 heard	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 heard	cc
15	as	as	SCONJ	_	17 stood	mark
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 stood	nsubj
17	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 heard	advcl
18	looking	look	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 stood	xcomp
19	at	at	ADP	_	20 it	case
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 looking	obl
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 heard	nsubj
22	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 reached	conj
23	voices	voice	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 heard	obj
24	talking	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	23 voices	acl
25	apparently	apparently	ADV	_	26 underground	advmod
26	underground	underground	ADV	_	24 talking	advmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 appeared	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 appeared	cc
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 moment	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 moment	det
31	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 appeared	obl
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 man	det
33	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 appeared	nsubj
34	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 reached	parataxis
35	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	36 asked	nsubj
36	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 appeared	conj
37	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	36 asked	iobj
38	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	40 came	advmod
39	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	40 came	nsubj
40	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 asked	advcl
41	upon	upon	ADP	_	43 island	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 island	det
43	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 came	obl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 reached	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reach	past	I	a great plain				presently property	vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent plain=Theme
2	tether	past · passive		a grazing horse					vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
3	stand	past	I						vn admire-31.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	look	gerund	I not said here					at horse	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at it=Theme
5	hear	past	I	voices					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer voice=Stimulus
6	talk	gerund	voices not said here					underground property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	appear	past	a man				moment		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	ask speech: ask	past			me				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
9	come	past	I			the island			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon island=Location

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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