The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 19, sentence 18

Hindbad drew near, and kissing his hand respectfully, replied, "Sir, you have indeed known fearful perils; my troubles have been nothing compared to yours.

Who acts: Hindbad, kissing, troubles, my · What happens: draw, kiss, reply, know, be, compare · To what, where: hand, Sir, you, nothing, yours · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Hindbad, kissing, troubles, 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	Hindbad	Hindbad	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 drew	nsubj
2	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	near	near	ADV	_	2 drew	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 replied	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 replied	cc
6	kissing	kiss	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 replied	csubj:pass
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 hand	nmod:poss
8	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 kissing	obj
9	respectfully	respectfully	ADV	_	6 kissing	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 replied	punct
11	replied	reply	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 drew	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 Sir	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 Sir	punct
14	Sir	Sir	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 replied	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 known	punct
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 known	nsubj:pass
17	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 known	aux
18	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	19 known	advmod
19	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 Sir	parataxis
20	fearful	fearful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 perils	amod
21	perils	peril	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 known	obj
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 nothing	punct
23	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 troubles	nmod:poss
24	troubles	trouble	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 nothing	nsubj
25	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 nothing	aux
26	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	27 nothing	cop
27	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 drew	parataxis
28	compared	compare	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 nothing	acl
29	to	to	ADP	_	30 yours	case
30	yours	your	PRON	Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 compared	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 drew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	draw	past	Hindbad			near property	tree rules
2	kiss	gerund		Hindbad's hand		respectfully property	vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Co-Agent
3	reply speech: assert	participle	kissing	Sir			vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	know in a quote	present · perfect · passive		you		indeed property	tree rules
5	is a in a quote	present · perfect	my troubles	nothing			tree rules
6	compare in a quote	participle			yours		vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient
7	trouble in a quote		my				nom trouble «cognition 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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