The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 15, sentence 59

As for him, believing me to be dead it was no wonder that he had not recognised me.

Who acts: voyage, passenger · What happens: believe, be, not recognise · To what, where: me, wonder · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (voyage, passenger), 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	As	as	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	3 him	case
2	for	for	ADP	_	1 As	fixed
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 believing	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 believing	punct
5	believing	believe	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 believing	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	9 dead	mark
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 dead	cop
9	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 believing	advcl
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 wonder	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 wonder	cop
12	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	13 wonder	det
13	wonder	wonder	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 believing	ccomp
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 recognised	mark
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 recognised	nsubj
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 recognised	aux
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 recognised	advmod
18	recognised	recognise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 wonder	acl:relcl
19	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 recognised	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 believing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	believe	gerund		me	as passenger	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus
2	is	to-infinitive			dead property	tree rules
3	is a	past	voyage	no wonder		tree rules
4	not recognise	past · perfect	passenger	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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