The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 26, sentence 18

After three days, finding that his guest, to whom he had taken a great fancy, talked of continuing his journey, King Armanos said to him:

Who acts: three days, king · What happens: find, take, talk, continue, say, journey · To what, where: guest, great fancy, journey · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (three days, king), 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	After	after	ADP	_	3 days	case
2	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 days	nummod
3	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 talked	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 finding	punct
5	finding	find	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 days	acl
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 guest	mark
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 guest	nmod:poss
8	guest	guest	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 finding	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 whom	punct
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 whom	case
11	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 guest	appos
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 taken	nsubj
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 taken	aux
14	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 whom	acl:relcl
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 fancy	det
16	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 fancy	amod
17	fancy	fancy	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 taken	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 days	punct
19	talked	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
20	of	of	SCONJ	_	21 continuing	mark
21	continuing	continue	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 said	advcl
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 journey	nmod:poss
23	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 continuing	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 continuing	punct
25	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 said	nsubj
26	Armanos	Armanos	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 King	flat
27	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 talked	parataxis
28	to	to	ADP	_	29 him	case
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 said	obl
30	:	:	PUNCT	_	19 talked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	find	gerund	three days not said here	king's guest			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent guest=Topic
2	take	past · perfect	king	a great fancy			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fancy=Theme
3	talk	past				day	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	continue	gerund	King not said here	king's journey			vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent journey=Theme
5	say speech: assert	past	King		guest		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient
6	journey		king				nom journey «act transitive»: 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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