The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 22, sentence 29

I sought him long from place to place, but it was only to-day, when I expected it least, that I came across him, as much irritated with me as ever"-- So saying the tailor went on to relate the story of the lame man and the barber, which has already been told.

Who acts: I, choice, tailor · What happens: seek, be, expect, come, irritate, say · To what, where: Bagdad, place, choice, story, lame man · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, choice, tailor), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 sought	nsubj
2	sought	seek	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sought	obj
4	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 sought	advmod
5	from	from	ADP	_	6 place	case
6	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sought	obl
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 place	case
8	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 place	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 day	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 day	cc
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 day	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 day	cop
13	only	only	ADV	_	16 day	advmod
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 day	case
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 to	punct
16	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sought	obl:unmarked
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 expected	punct
18	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	20 expected	advmod
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 expected	nsubj
20	expected	expect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sought	parataxis
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 expected	obj
22	least	least	ADV	Degree=Sup	20 expected	advmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 came	punct
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 came	mark
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 came	nsubj
26	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 expected	parataxis
27	across	across	ADP	_	28 him	case
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 came	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 irritated	punct
30	as	as	ADV	_	31 much	advmod
31	much	much	ADV	_	32 irritated	advmod
32	irritated	irritate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 came	conj
33	with	with	ADP	_	34 me	case
34	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 irritated	obl
35	as	as	ADP	_	36 ever	case
36	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	32 irritated	obl
37	"	"	PUNCT	_	36 ever	punct
38	--	--	PUNCT	_	40 saying	punct
39	So	so	ADV	_	40 saying	advmod
40	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 sought	advcl
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 tailor	det
42	tailor	tailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 went	nsubj
43	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 saying	ccomp
44	on	on	ADV	_	43 went	advmod
45	to	to	PART	_	46 relate	mark
46	relate	relate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	43 went	advcl
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 story	det
48	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 relate	obj
49	of	of	ADP	_	52 man	case
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 man	det
51	lame	lame	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 man	amod
52	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 story	nmod
53	and	and	CCONJ	_	55 barber	cc
54	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	55 barber	det
55	barber	barber	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 man	conj
56	,	,	PUNCT	_	61 told	punct
57	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	61 told	nsubj:pass
58	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	61 told	aux
59	already	already	ADV	_	61 told	advmod
60	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	61 told	aux:pass
61	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	52 man	acl:relcl
62	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	seek	past	I	Bagdad	place to place		long property	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	is	past	choice			to day		tree rules
3	expect	past	I	choice			least property	vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
4	come	past	I				across Bagdad	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme across he=Initial_Location
5	irritate	participle	I not said here				with me	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
6	say speech: assert in a quote	gerund	I not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	go on in a quote	past	the tailor					vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	relate in a quote	to-infinitive	the tailor not said here	the story of the lame man and the barber				vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Theme
9	tell speech: assert in a quote	present · perfect · passive		the lame man and the barber				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient

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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