The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 18, sentence 38

When Sindbad had done speaking his guests withdrew, Hindbad having first received a hundred sequins, but all returned next day to hear the story of the seventh voyage, Sindbad thus began.

Who acts: Sindbad, speaking, returned next day · What happens: do, speak, withdraw, have, receive, return · To what, where: Hindbad, guests, hundred sequins, story · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sindbad, speaking, returned next day), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 done	advmod
2	Sindbad	Sindbad	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 done	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 done	aux
4	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	speaking	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 withdrew	csubj
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 guests	nmod:poss
7	guests	guest	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 speaking	obj
8	withdrew	withdraw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 done	parataxis
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 Hindbad	punct
10	Hindbad	Hindbad	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 done	obl
11	having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 done	advcl
12	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	13 received	advmod
13	received	receive	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 having	ccomp
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 sequins	det
15	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 sequins	nummod
16	sequins	sequin	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 received	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 hear	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 hear	cc
19	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	22 day	det
20	returned	return	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 day	amod
21	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 day	amod
22	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 hear	nsubj
23	to	to	PART	_	24 hear	mark
24	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 done	advcl
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 story	det
26	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 hear	obj
27	of	of	ADP	_	30 voyage	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 voyage	det
29	seventh	seventh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 voyage	amod
30	voyage	voyage	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 story	nmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 began	punct
32	Sindbad	Sindbad	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 began	nsubj
33	thus	thus	ADV	_	34 began	advmod
34	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 hear	conj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 done	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	past · perfect	Sindbad	Hindbad		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	speak speech: other	gerund		Sindbad's guests		tree rules
3	withdraw	past	speaking			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	have	gerund	Sindbad not said here			tree rules
5	receive	past	Sindbad not said here	a hundred sequins	first property	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sequin=Theme
6	return	participle				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	hear	to-infinitive	all returned next day	the story of the seventh voyage		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer story=Stimulus
8	begin	past	Sindbad		thus property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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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