The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 2, sentence 18

Scheherazade, at this point, seeing that it was day, and knowing that the Sultan always rose very early to attend the council, stopped speaking.

Who acts: Scheherazade, point, Sultan · What happens: see, be, know, rise, attend, stop · To what, where: day, early, council · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Scheherazade, point, Sultan), 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	Scheherazade	Scheherazade	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 stopped	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 point	punct
3	at	at	ADP	_	5 point	case
4	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 point	det
5	point	point	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Scheherazade	appos
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Scheherazade	punct
7	seeing	see	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Scheherazade	acl
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 day	mark
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 day	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 day	cop
11	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 seeing	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 knowing	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 knowing	cc
14	knowing	know	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 seeing	advcl
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 rose	mark
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Sultan	det
17	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 rose	nsubj
18	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	19 rose	advmod
19	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 knowing	advcl
20	very	very	ADV	_	21 early	advmod
21	early	early	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 rose	obj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 attend	mark
23	attend	attend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 early	advcl
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 council	det
25	council	council	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 attend	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Scheherazade	punct
27	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
28	speaking	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	27 stopped	xcomp
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	27 stopped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	see	gerund	Scheherazade not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is a	past	point	day		tree rules
3	know	gerund	Scheherazade not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	rise	past	the Sultan	early	always property	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location early=Theme
5	attend	to-infinitive	the Sultan not said here	the council		vn attend-107.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme council=Goal
6	stop	past	Scheherazade			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
7	speak speech: other	gerund	Scheherazade not said here			vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=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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