The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 22, sentence 56

The Sultan and all those who saw this operation did not know which to admire most, the constitution of the hunchback who had apparently been dead for a whole night and most of one day, or the skill of the barber, whom everyone now began to look upon as a great man.

Who acts: operation, hunchback, most, everyone · What happens: see, not know, admire, be, skill, begin · To what, where: skill, hunchback · 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 (operation, hunchback, most, everyone), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Sultan	det
2	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 those	cc
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 those	det:predet
5	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	2 Sultan	conj
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 saw	nsubj
7	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 those	acl:relcl
8	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 operation	det
9	operation	operation	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 know	nsubj
10	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 know	aux
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 know	advmod
12	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 saw	ccomp
13	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 admire	nsubj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 admire	mark
15	admire	admire	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 know	ccomp
16	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	15 admire	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 constitution	punct
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 constitution	det
19	constitution	constitution	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 know	conj
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 hunchback	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 hunchback	det
22	hunchback	hunchback	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 constitution	nmod
23	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 dead	nsubj
24	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 dead	aux
25	apparently	apparently	ADV	_	27 dead	advmod
26	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	27 dead	cop
27	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 hunchback	acl:relcl
28	for	for	ADP	_	31 night	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 night	det
30	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 night	amod
31	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 dead	obl
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 skill	cc
33	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	40 skill	nsubj
34	of	of	ADP	_	36 day	case
35	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	36 day	nummod
36	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 most	nmod
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 skill	punct
38	or	or	CCONJ	_	40 skill	cc
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 skill	det
40	skill	skill	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 night	conj
41	of	of	ADP	_	43 barber	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 barber	det
43	barber	barber	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 skill	nmod
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 began	punct
45	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	48 began	obj
46	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	48 began	nsubj
47	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	48 began	advmod
48	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 skill	conj
49	to	to	PART	_	50 look	mark
50	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	48 began	xcomp
51	upon	upon	ADP	_	55 man	case
52	as	as	ADP	_	55 man	case
53	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	55 man	det
54	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	55 man	amod
55	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 look	obl
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Sultan	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	see	past					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	not know	past · do-support	this operation				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	admire	to-infinitive					vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
4	is	past · perfect	the hunchback		night	apparently, dead property	tree rules
5	skill		most of one day			of the barber	tree rules
6	begin	past	everyone	the skill	now		tree rules
7	look	to-infinitive	everyone not said here			upon a great man	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon man=Theme
8	constitute			the hunchback			nom constitution «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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