The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 2, sentence 89

Eight months, however, passed, and still no tidings of him; then the feast of Bairam came.

Who acts: Eight months, feast · What happens: pass, come

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 (Eight months, feast), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg128:153): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 months	nummod
2	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 passed	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 months	punct
4	however	however	ADV	_	6 passed	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 however	punct
6	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 tidings	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 tidings	cc
9	still	still	ADV	_	11 tidings	advmod
10	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	11 tidings	det
11	tidings	tidings	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 passed	conj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 him	case
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 tidings	nmod
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 came	punct
15	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	20 came	advmod
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 feast	det
17	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 came	nsubj
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 Bairam	case
19	Bairam	Bairam	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 feast	nmod
20	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 passed	parataxis
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 passed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pass	past	Eight months					however property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	come	past	the feast of Bairam				then		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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