The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 13, sentence 57

In the meantime I heard many curious things, and answered many questions concerning my own country, for I talked willingly with all who came to me.

Who acts: I, many questions · What happens: hear, answer, concern, talk, come · To what, where: many curious things, meantime, many questions, own country, me

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, many questions), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 meantime	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 meantime	det
3	meantime	meantime	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 heard	obl
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 heard	nsubj
5	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 things	amod
7	curious	curious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 things	amod
8	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 heard	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 answered	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 answered	cc
11	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 heard	parataxis
12	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 questions	amod
13	questions	question	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 answered	obj
14	concerning	concern	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 questions	acl
15	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 country	nmod:poss
16	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 country	amod
17	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 concerning	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 talked	punct
19	for	for	SCONJ	_	21 talked	mark
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 talked	nsubj
21	talked	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 answered	conj
22	willingly	willingly	ADV	_	21 talked	advmod
23	with	with	ADP	_	24 all	case
24	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	21 talked	obl
25	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 came	nsubj
26	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 all	acl:relcl
27	to	to	ADP	_	28 me	case
28	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 came	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	hear	past	I	many curious things		the meantime		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus
2	answer speech: assert	past		many questions				vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent question=Eventuality
3	concern	gerund	many questions not said here	my own country				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus country=Experiencer
4	talk	past	I				with all; willingly property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with all=Co-Agent
5	come	past			me			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to i=Initial_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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