The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 17, sentence 1

When I had somewhat recovered I began to examine the spot in which I found myself, and truly it seemed to me that I had reached a garden of delights.

Who acts: I · What happens: recover, begin, examine, find, seem, reach · To what, where: spot, myself, me, garden

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg128:1411): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 recovered	advmod
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 recovered	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 recovered	aux
4	somewhat	somewhat	ADV	_	5 recovered	advmod
5	recovered	recover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 began	advcl
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 began	nsubj
7	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 examine	mark
9	examine	examine	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 began	xcomp
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 spot	det
11	spot	spot	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 examine	obj
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 which	case
13	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 found	obl
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 found	nsubj
15	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 spot	acl:relcl
16	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	15 found	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 seemed	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 seemed	cc
19	truly	truly	ADV	_	21 seemed	advmod
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 seemed	expl
21	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 began	conj
22	to	to	ADP	_	23 me	case
23	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 seemed	obl
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 reached	mark
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 reached	nsubj
26	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 reached	aux
27	reached	reach	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	21 seemed	ccomp
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 garden	det
29	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 reached	obj
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 delights	case
31	delights	delight	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 garden	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	recover	past · perfect	I				somewhat property	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	begin	past	I					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	examine	to-infinitive	I not said here	the spot				vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spot=Theme
4	find	past	I	myself		the spot		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent myself=Topic
5	seem	past	I not said here	spot	me		truly property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
6	reach	past · perfect	I	a garden of delights				vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent garden=Theme

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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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