The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 15, sentence 58

At this I was greatly surprised, but looking carefully at him I recognised him to be the captain of the ship upon which I had made my second voyage, though he had altered much since that time.

Who acts: I, passenger, my · What happens: be, look, recognise, make, alter, voyage · To what, where: this, passenger, captain, second voyage

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, passenger, my), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 this	case
2	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 surprised	obl
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 surprised	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 surprised	cop
5	greatly	greatly	ADV	_	6 surprised	advmod
6	surprised	surprised	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 recognised	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 recognised	cc
9	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 recognised	advcl
10	carefully	carefully	ADV	_	9 looking	advmod
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 him	case
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 looking	obl
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 recognised	nsubj
14	recognised	recognise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 surprised	conj
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 recognised	obj
16	to	to	PART	_	19 captain	mark
17	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 captain	cop
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 captain	det
19	captain	captain	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 recognised	advcl
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 ship	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 ship	det
22	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 captain	nmod
23	upon	upon	ADP	_	24 which	case
24	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 made	obl
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 made	nsubj
26	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 made	aux
27	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	19 captain	parataxis
28	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 voyage	nmod:poss
29	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	30 voyage	amod
30	voyage	voyage	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 made	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 altered	punct
32	though	though	SCONJ	_	35 altered	mark
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 altered	nsubj
34	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 altered	aux
35	altered	alter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	27 made	conj
36	much	much	ADV	_	35 altered	advmod
37	since	since	ADP	_	39 time	case
38	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	39 time	det
39	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 altered	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 surprised	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	I		this		greatly, surprised property	tree rules
2	look	gerund	I not said here				at passenger; carefully property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at he=Theme
3	recognise	past	I	passenger				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
4	is a	to-infinitive	I not said here	the captain			of the ship	tree rules
5	make	past · perfect	I	my second voyage			upon the captain	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent voyage=Product
6	alter	past · perfect	passenger			time		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
7	voyage		my					nom voyage «act transitive»: 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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