The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 25, sentence 64

One night, however, Prince Camaralzaman dreamt that he saw his father lying at the point of death, and saying: "Alas! my son whom I loved so tenderly, has deserted me and is now causing my death."

Who acts: Prince, father, my · What happens: dreamt, see, lie, say, love, desert · To what, where: father, point, son, death · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, father, my), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 night	nummod
2	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 dreamt	obl:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 night	punct
4	however	however	ADV	_	8 dreamt	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 however	punct
6	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 dreamt	nsubj
7	Camaralzaman	Camaralzaman	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Prince	flat
8	dreamt	dreamt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 saw	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 saw	nsubj
11	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 dreamt	ccomp
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 father	nmod:poss
13	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 saw	obj
14	lying	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 father	acl
15	at	at	ADP	_	17 point	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 point	det
17	point	point	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 lying	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 death	case
19	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 point	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 saying	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 saying	cc
22	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 dreamt	advcl
23	:	:	PUNCT	_	36 deserted	punct
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	36 deserted	punct
25	Alas	alas	INTJ	_	36 deserted	discourse
26	!	!	PUNCT	_	25 Alas	punct
27	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 son	nmod:poss
28	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 deserted	nsubj:pass
29	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 loved	obj
30	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 loved	nsubj
31	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 son	acl:relcl
32	so	so	ADV	_	33 tenderly	advmod
33	tenderly	tenderly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 loved	xcomp
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 son	punct
35	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 deserted	aux
36	deserted	desert	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 dreamt	conj
37	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	36 deserted	obj
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 causing	cc
39	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	41 causing	aux
40	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	41 causing	advmod
41	causing	cause	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	36 deserted	conj
42	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 death	nmod:poss
43	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 causing	obj
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 dreamt	punct
45	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 dreamt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dreamt	past	Prince			night	however property	tree rules
2	see	past	Prince	Prince's father				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer father=Stimulus
3	lie	gerund	Prince's father not said here		the point of death			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at point=Location
4	say speech: express	gerund	Prince not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	love in a quote	past	Prince	my son			tenderly property	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer whom=Stimulus
6	desert in a quote	present · perfect · passive		my son				tree rules
7	cause in a quote	present · progressive		my death		now		vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition death=Patient
8	point			death				nom point «cognition transitive»: of=patient
9	die in a quote		my					nom death «event intransitive»: poss=agent

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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