The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 2, sentence 53

He dismounted, and sat down at the edge of the fountain, where he awaited the genius in terrible suspense.

Who acts: merchant · What happens: dismount, sit down, await · To what, where: edge, genius, terrible suspense

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 (merchant), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 dismounted	nsubj
2	dismounted	dismount	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 sat	punct
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 sat	cc
5	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 dismounted	conj
6	down	down	ADP	_	5 sat	compound:prt
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 edge	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 edge	det
9	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sat	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 fountain	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 fountain	det
12	fountain	fountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 edge	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 awaited	punct
14	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	16 awaited	advmod
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 awaited	nsubj
16	awaited	await	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 fountain	acl:relcl
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 genius	det
18	genius	genius	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 awaited	obj
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 suspense	case
20	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 suspense	amod
21	suspense	suspense	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 awaited	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 dismounted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	dismount	past	merchant			vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	sit down	past	merchant not said here		the edge of the fountain	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at edge=Location
3	await	past	merchant	the genius	terrible suspense	tree rules

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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