The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 20, sentence 58

In the evening, when we retire to our apartments, I shall sit in the place of honour, where I shall assume a grand demeanour and speak little, gazing straight before me, and when my wife, lovely as the full moon, stands humbly in front of my chair I shall pretend not to see her.

Who acts: we, I · What happens: retire, sit, assume, speak, gaze, stand · To what, where: place, grand demeanour, little, front, chair, wife · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, I), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 evening	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 evening	det
3	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 sit	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 evening	punct
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 retire	advmod
6	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 retire	nsubj
7	retire	retire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 sit	advcl
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 apartments	case
9	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 apartments	nmod:poss
10	apartments	apartment	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 retire	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 retire	punct
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 sit	nsubj
13	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 sit	aux
14	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 place	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 place	det
17	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 sit	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 honour	case
19	honour	honour	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 place	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 assume	punct
21	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	24 assume	advmod
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 assume	nsubj
23	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 assume	aux
24	assume	assume	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 sit	conj
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 demeanour	det
26	grand	grand	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 demeanour	amod
27	demeanour	demeanour	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 assume	obj
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 speak	cc
29	speak	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 assume	conj
30	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 speak	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 gazing	punct
32	gazing	gaze	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 sit	advcl
33	straight	straight	ADV	_	32 gazing	advmod
34	before	before	ADP	_	35 me	case
35	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 gazing	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 lovely	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 lovely	cc
38	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	42 lovely	advmod
39	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 wife	nmod:poss
40	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 lovely	nsubj
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 wife	punct
42	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 sit	conj
43	as	as	ADP	_	46 moon	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 moon	det
45	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 moon	amod
46	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 lovely	obl
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 stands	punct
48	stands	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 sit	parataxis
49	humbly	humbly	ADV	_	48 stands	advmod
50	in	in	ADP	_	51 front	case
51	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 stands	obl
52	of	of	ADP	_	54 chair	case
53	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	54 chair	nmod:poss
54	chair	chair	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 front	nmod
55	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	57 pretend	nsubj
56	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	57 pretend	aux
57	pretend	pretend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	54 chair	acl:relcl
58	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	60 see	advmod
59	to	to	PART	_	60 see	mark
60	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	57 pretend	xcomp
61	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	60 see	obj
62	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 sit	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	retire	present	we				to our apartments	vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	sit	shall	I		the place of honour	evening		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in place=Location
3	assume	shall	I	a grand demeanour				vn adopt-93.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent demeanour=Theme
4	speak speech: other	present	I not said here	little				tree rules
5	gaze	gerund	I not said here			before me	straight property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent before i=Theme
6	stand	present			front of my chair		humbly property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in front=Location
7	pretend	shall	I	my chair not said here				tree rules
8	not see	to-infinitive	I not said here	wife				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus

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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