The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 23, sentence 15

She could not weary gazing at Camaralzaman, but at length, having softly kissed his brow and each cheek, she replaced the coverlet and resumed her flight through the air.

Who acts: Maimoune, length · What happens: not weary, gaze, have, kiss, replace, resume · To what, where: brow, length, coverlet, flight, air

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Maimoune, length), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 weary	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 weary	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 weary	advmod
4	weary	weary	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	gazing	gaze	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 weary	xcomp
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 Camaralzaman	case
7	Camaralzaman	Camaralzaman	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 gazing	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 kissed	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 kissed	cc
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 length	case
11	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 kissed	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 having	punct
13	having	have	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 length	acl
14	softly	softly	ADV	_	13 having	advmod
15	kissed	kiss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 weary	parataxis
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 brow	nmod:poss
17	brow	brow	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 kissed	obj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 cheek	cc
19	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	20 cheek	det
20	cheek	cheek	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 brow	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 replaced	punct
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 replaced	nsubj
23	replaced	replace	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 weary	parataxis
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 coverlet	det
25	coverlet	coverlet	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 replaced	obj
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 resumed	cc
27	resumed	resume	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 replaced	conj
28	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 flight	nmod:poss
29	flight	flight	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 resumed	obj
30	through	through	ADP	_	32 air	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 air	det
32	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 resumed	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 weary	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not weary	could	Maimoune				tree rules
2	gaze	gerund	Maimoune not said here			at Camaralzaman	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at camaralzaman=Theme
3	have	gerund	length not said here			softly property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	kiss	past		prince's brow and each cheek	length		vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brow=Co-Agent
5	replace	past	Maimoune	the coverlet			vn substitute-13.6.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme coverlet=Co-Theme
6	resume	past	Maimoune not said here	Maimoune's flight	the air		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flight=Eventuality

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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