The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 13, sentence 78

Very soon I began to see that I had made some impression upon him, and after the arrival of some of the other merchants, who showed great joy at once more seeing me alive, he declared that he also recognised me.

Who acts: I, other merchants, captain · What happens: begin, see, make, show, declare, recognise · To what, where: impression, great joy, me · 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 (I, other merchants, captain), 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	Very	very	ADV	_	2 soon	advmod
2	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 began	advmod
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 began	nsubj
4	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 see	mark
6	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 began	xcomp
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 made	mark
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 made	nsubj
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 made	aux
10	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 see	ccomp
11	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	12 impression	det
12	impression	impression	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 made	obj
13	upon	upon	ADP	_	14 him	case
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 impression	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 declared	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 declared	cc
17	after	after	ADP	_	19 arrival	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 arrival	det
19	arrival	arrival	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 declared	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 some	case
21	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	19 arrival	nmod
22	of	of	ADP	_	25 merchants	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 merchants	det
24	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 merchants	amod
25	merchants	merchant	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 some	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 showed	punct
27	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 showed	nsubj
28	showed	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 merchants	acl:relcl
29	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 joy	amod
30	joy	joy	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 showed	obj
31	at	at	ADP	_	32 once	case
32	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	33 more	advmod
33	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	34 seeing	advmod
34	seeing	see	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	28 showed	advcl
35	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 seeing	obj
36	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 seeing	xcomp
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 arrival	punct
38	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 declared	nsubj
39	declared	declare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 began	conj
40	that	that	SCONJ	_	43 recognised	mark
41	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 recognised	nsubj
42	also	also	ADV	_	43 recognised	advmod
43	recognised	recognise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 declared	advcl
44	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	43 recognised	obj
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	I			soon property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	see	to-infinitive	I not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	make	past · perfect	I	some impression		upon captain	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent impression=Product
4	show	past	the other merchants	great joy			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent joy=Recipient
5	see	gerund	the other merchants not said here	me		alive property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus
6	declare speech: other	past	captain		after the arrival of some		vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
7	recognise	past	captain	me			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus

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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