The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 19, sentence 73

So he hastened his steps lest he should meet some one on his way to the mosque, who, seeing his condition, would send him to prison as a drunkard.

Who acts: revenge, mosque · What happens: hasten, meet, see, send, step, condition · To what, where: steps, one, way, condition, revenge, prison

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 (revenge, mosque), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 hastened	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 hastened	nsubj
3	hastened	hasten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 steps	nmod:poss
5	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 hastened	obj
6	lest	lest	SCONJ	_	9 meet	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 meet	nsubj
8	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 meet	aux
9	meet	meet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 hastened	advcl
10	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	11 one	det
11	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 meet	obj
12	on	on	ADP	_	14 way	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 way	nmod:poss
14	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 meet	obl
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 mosque	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 mosque	det
17	mosque	mosque	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 way	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 seeing	punct
19	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 seeing	nsubj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 seeing	punct
21	seeing	see	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 mosque	acl
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 condition	nmod:poss
23	condition	condition	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 seeing	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 send	punct
25	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 send	aux
26	send	send	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 meet	conj
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 send	obj
28	to	to	ADP	_	29 prison	case
29	prison	prison	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 send	obl
30	as	as	ADP	_	32 drunkard	case
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 drunkard	det
32	drunkard	drunkard	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 send	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 hastened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hasten	past	revenge	revenge's steps			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent step=Patient
2	meet	should	revenge	some one	revenge's way to the mosque		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Co-Agent
3	see	gerund	the mosque	revenge's condition			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer condition=Stimulus
4	send	would	revenge not said here	revenge	prison	as a drunkard	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to prison=Destination
5	step		revenge				nom step «act transitive»: poss=agent
6	condition		revenge				nom condition «state 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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