The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 17, sentence 7

I then asked what he did there, and he made signs to me that he wished to get across the river to gather some fruit, and seemed to beg me to carry him on my back.

Who acts: I, man · What happens: ask, do, make, wish, get, gather · To what, where: signs, me, river, fruit, man, back

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, man), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 asked	nsubj
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 asked	advmod
3	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 asked	obj
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 did	nsubj
6	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 what	acl:relcl
7	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 did	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 made	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 made	cc
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 made	nsubj
11	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 asked	conj
12	signs	sign	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 made	obj
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 me	case
14	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 made	obl
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 wished	mark
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 wished	nsubj
17	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 made	advcl
18	to	to	PART	_	19 get	mark
19	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 wished	xcomp
20	across	across	ADP	_	22 river	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 river	det
22	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 get	obl
23	to	to	PART	_	24 gather	mark
24	gather	gather	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 get	advcl
25	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	26 fruit	det
26	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 gather	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 seemed	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 seemed	cc
29	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 asked	parataxis
30	to	to	PART	_	31 beg	mark
31	beg	beg	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 seemed	xcomp
32	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 beg	obj
33	to	to	PART	_	34 carry	mark
34	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 beg	advcl
35	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 carry	obj
36	on	on	ADP	_	38 back	case
37	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 back	nmod:poss
38	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 carry	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	I				then	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Recipient
2	do	past	man			there		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	make	past	man	signs	me			vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sign=Product
4	wish	past	man					vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5	get not said to happen	to-infinitive	man not said here			the river		vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme across river=Destination
6	gather	to-infinitive	man not said here	some fruit				vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fruit=Theme
7	seem	past						vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
8	beg speech: request	to-infinitive			me			vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
9	carry	to-infinitive		man		my back		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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