The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 19, sentence 11

As to my adventure among the elephants he heard it with amazement, declaring that he could not have believed it had not my truthfulness been well known to him.

Who acts: Bagdad, my · What happens: hear, declare, not believe, not know, adventure · To what, where: adventure, Bagdad

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bagdad, my), 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	As	as	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	4 adventure	case
2	to	to	ADP	_	1 As	fixed
3	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 adventure	nmod:poss
4	adventure	adventure	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 heard	obl
5	among	among	ADP	_	7 elephants	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 elephants	det
7	elephants	elephant	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 adventure	nmod
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 heard	nsubj
9	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 heard	obj
11	with	with	ADP	_	12 amazement	case
12	amazement	amazement	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 heard	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 declaring	punct
14	declaring	declare	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 heard	advcl
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 believed	mark
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 believed	nsubj:pass
17	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 believed	aux
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 believed	advmod
19	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 believed	aux
20	believed	believe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 declaring	advcl
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 known	nsubj:pass
22	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 known	aux
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	28 known	advmod
24	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 known	nmod:poss
25	truthfulness	truthfulness	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 known	nsubj:pass
26	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	28 known	aux:pass
27	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	28 known	advmod
28	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 declaring	parataxis
29	to	to	ADP	_	30 him	case
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 known	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	hear	past	Bagdad	adventure		as my adventure among the elephants; with amazement	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
2	declare speech: other	gerund	Bagdad not said here				vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
3	not believe	could · perfect · passive		Bagdad			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus
4	not know	past · perfect · passive		adventure	Bagdad	well property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus
5	adventure		my			among the elephants	nom adventure «act transitive»: poss=agent among=obl

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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