The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 15, sentence 87

Observing that they themselves did not touch them, I was careful only to pretend to taste my portion; but my companions, being very hungry, rashly ate up all that was set before them, and very soon I had the horror of seeing them become perfectly mad.

Who acts: blacks, I, companions, horror · What happens: observe, not touch, be, pretend, taste, eat up · To what, where: signs, portion, that, blacks

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 (blacks, I, companions, horror), 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	Observing	observe	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 careful	csubj
2	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 touch	mark
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 touch	nsubj
4	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	3 they	nmod:unmarked
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 touch	aux
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 touch	advmod
7	touch	touch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Observing	advcl
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 touch	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Observing	punct
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 careful	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 careful	cop
12	careful	careful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
13	only	only	ADV	_	15 pretend	advmod
14	to	to	PART	_	15 pretend	mark
15	pretend	pretend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 careful	advcl
16	to	to	PART	_	17 taste	mark
17	taste	taste	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 pretend	xcomp
18	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 portion	nmod:poss
19	portion	portion	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 taste	obj
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 hungry	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 hungry	cc
22	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 companions	nmod:poss
23	companions	companion	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 hungry	nsubj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 companions	punct
25	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 hungry	cop
26	very	very	ADV	_	27 hungry	advmod
27	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 careful	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 ate	punct
29	rashly	rashly	ADV	_	30 ate	advmod
30	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 hungry	conj
31	up	up	ADP	_	30 ate	compound:prt
32	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	35 set	det:predet
33	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	35 set	nsubj:pass
34	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 set	aux:pass
35	set	set	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 ate	conj
36	before	before	ADP	_	37 them	case
37	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 set	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 had	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 had	cc
40	very	very	ADV	_	41 soon	advmod
41	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	43 had	advmod
42	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	43 had	nsubj
43	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 careful	parataxis
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 horror	det
45	horror	horror	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 become	nsubj
46	of	of	SCONJ	_	47 seeing	mark
47	seeing	see	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	45 horror	acl
48	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 seeing	obj
49	become	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	43 had	conj
50	perfectly	perfectly	ADV	_	51 mad	advmod
51	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 become	xcomp
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 careful	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	observe	gerund					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	not touch	past · do-support	blacks = black	signs = sign			vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme they=Co-Theme
3	is	past	I			careful property	tree rules
4	pretend	to-infinitive	I not said here				tree rules
5	taste	to-infinitive	I not said here	my portion			vn seem-109 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Theme portion=Attribute
6	is	gerund	my companions			hungry property	tree rules
7	eat up	past	my companions not said here			rashly property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	set	past · passive		that	before blacks = black		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme before they=Destination
9	have	past	I			soon property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
10	see	gerund	the horror not said here	blacks = black			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus
11	become	present	the horror			mad property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

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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