The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 24, sentence 89

The king sat near him, but, without paying any regard to his presence, Marzavan exclaimed, "Heavens! what a striking likeness!"

Who acts: king, Marzavan · What happens: sit, pay, exclaim, strike · To what, where: regard, Heavens · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, Marzavan), 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 king	det
2	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sat	nsubj
3	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	near	near	ADP	_	5 him	case
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sat	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 paying	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 paying	cc
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 paying	punct
9	without	without	SCONJ	_	10 paying	mark
10	paying	pay	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 sat	advcl
11	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	12 regard	det
12	regard	regard	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 paying	obj
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 presence	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 presence	nmod:poss
15	presence	presence	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 paying	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 exclaimed	punct
17	Marzavan	Marzavan	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 exclaimed	nsubj
18	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sat	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 Heavens	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 Heavens	punct
21	Heavens	heaven	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 exclaimed	obj
22	!	!	PUNCT	_	21 Heavens	punct
23	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	18 exclaimed	parataxis
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 likeness	det
25	striking	strike	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	26 likeness	amod
26	likeness	likeness	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 what	nsubj
27	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 sat	punct
28	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	sit	past	the king		near vizir	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent near he=Location
2	pay	gerund	the king not said here	any regard	to vizir's presence	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent regard=Asset
3	exclaim speech: express	past	Marzavan	Heavens		tree rules
4	strike in a quote	gerund				vn sound_emission-43.2 «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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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