The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 14, sentence 65

The other guests also departed to their homes, but all returned at the same hour next day, including the porter, whose former life of hard work and poverty had already begun to seem to him like a bad dream.

Who acts: other guests, all, poverty · What happens: depart, return, begin, seem · To what, where: homes, poverty

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (other guests, all, poverty), 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	3 guests	det
2	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 guests	amod
3	guests	guest	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 departed	nsubj
4	also	also	ADV	_	5 departed	advmod
5	departed	depart	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 homes	case
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 homes	nmod:poss
8	homes	home	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 departed	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 returned	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 returned	cc
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 returned	nsubj
12	returned	return	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 departed	conj
13	at	at	ADP	_	16 hour	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 hour	det
15	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 hour	amod
16	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 returned	obl
17	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 day	amod
18	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 returned	obl:unmarked
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 porter	punct
20	including	including	ADP	_	22 porter	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 porter	det
22	porter	porter	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 returned	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 life	punct
24	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	26 life	nmod:poss
25	former	former	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 life	amod
26	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 porter	conj
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 work	case
28	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 work	amod
29	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 life	nmod
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 begun	cc
31	poverty	poverty	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 begun	nsubj
32	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 begun	aux
33	already	already	ADV	_	34 begun	advmod
34	begun	begin	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	29 work	conj
35	to	to	PART	_	36 seem	mark
36	seem	seem	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 begun	xcomp
37	to	to	ADP	_	38 him	case
38	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 seem	obl
39	like	like	ADP	_	42 dream	case
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 dream	det
41	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 dream	amod
42	dream	dream	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 seem	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 departed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	depart	past	the other guests		guests's homes			vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to home=Initial_Location
2	return	participle	all			day; hour	including the porter and the porter and the porter's former life of hard work's former life of hard work	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	begin	past · perfect	poverty					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	seem	to-infinitive	poverty not said here	poverty			like a bad dream	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme

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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