The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 16, sentence 75

Here Sindbad paused, and all his hearers declared that the adventures of his fourth voyage had pleased them better than anything they had heard before.

Who acts: Sindbad, hearers, adventures · What happens: pause, declare, have, hear, adventure, voyage · To what, where: hearers, fourth voyage

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 (Sindbad, hearers, adventures), 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	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 paused	advmod
2	Sindbad	Sindbad	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 paused	nsubj
3	paused	pause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 declared	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 declared	cc
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 hearers	det:predet
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 hearers	nmod:poss
8	hearers	hearer	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 declared	nsubj
9	declared	declare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 paused	conj
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 had	mark
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 adventures	det
12	adventures	adventure	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 had	nsubj
13	of	of	ADP	_	16 voyage	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 voyage	nmod:poss
15	fourth	fourth	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	16 voyage	amod
16	voyage	voyage	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 adventures	nmod
17	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 declared	advcl
18	pleased	pleased	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 them	amod
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 had	obj
20	better	well	ADV	Degree=Cmp	17 had	advmod
21	than	than	ADP	_	22 anything	case
22	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	20 better	obl
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 heard	nsubj
24	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 heard	aux
25	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	22 anything	acl:relcl
26	before	before	ADV	_	25 heard	advmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 paused	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	pause	past	Sindbad		here		vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
2	declare speech: other	past	Sindbad's hearers				vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
3	have	past	the adventures of Sindbad's fourth voyage	hearers = hearer		well property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
4	hear	past · perfect	adventures = adventure			before property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
5	adventure			Sindbad's fourth voyage			nom adventure «act transitive»: of=patient
6	voyage		Sindbad				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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