The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 16, sentence 2

Reassured by the nature of their occupation, I advanced towards them and they greeted me in Arabic, asking who I was and whence I came.

Who acts: I, cocoanuts · What happens: reassure, advance, greet, ask, be, come · To what, where: me, Arabic

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, cocoanuts), 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	Reassured	reassure	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 advanced	advcl
2	by	by	ADP	_	4 nature	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 nature	det
4	nature	nature	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Reassured	obl
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 occupation	case
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 occupation	nmod:poss
7	occupation	occupation	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 nature	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Reassured	punct
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 advanced	nsubj
10	advanced	advance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	towards	towards	ADP	_	12 them	case
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 advanced	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 greeted	cc
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 greeted	nsubj
15	greeted	greet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 advanced	conj
16	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 greeted	obj
17	in	in	ADP	_	18 Arabic	case
18	Arabic	Arabic	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 greeted	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 asking	punct
20	asking	ask	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 greeted	advcl
21	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 asking	obj
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 who	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 who	cop
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 came	cc
25	whence	whence	ADV	PronType=Int	27 came	advmod
26	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 came	nsubj
27	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 who	conj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 advanced	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	reassure	participle	I not said here			by the nature of cocoanuts's occupation	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	advance	past	I			towards cocoanuts = cocoanut	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme towards they=Initial_Location
3	greet speech: greet	past	cocoanuts = cocoanut	me	Arabic		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
4	ask speech: ask	gerund	cocoanuts = cocoanut not said here				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is a	past	I				tree rules
6	come	past	I			whence property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	occupy		cocoanuts = cocoanut				nom occupation «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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