The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 26, sentence 59

The gardener had heard the night before that the ship about which he was inquiring would start ere long, but the exact date not being yet known he had been told to return next day for further information.

Who acts: gardener, ship · What happens: hear, inquire, start, not know, tell, return · To what, where: exact date, gardener · 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 (gardener, ship), 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 gardener	det
2	gardener	gardener	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 heard	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 heard	aux
4	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 night	det
6	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 heard	obl:unmarked
7	before	before	SCONJ	_	17 start	mark
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 start	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 ship	det
10	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 start	nsubj
11	about	about	ADP	_	12 which	case
12	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 inquiring	obl
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 inquiring	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 inquiring	aux
15	inquiring	inquire	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 ship	acl
16	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 start	aux
17	start	start	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 heard	advcl
18	ere	ere	ADV	_	19 long	advmod
19	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 start	xcomp
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 known	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 known	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 date	det
23	exact	exact	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 date	amod
24	date	date	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 known	nsubj:pass
25	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	28 known	advmod
26	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	28 known	aux:pass
27	yet	yet	ADV	_	28 known	advmod
28	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 heard	parataxis
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 told	nsubj
30	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 told	aux
31	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	32 told	aux:pass
32	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 known	conj
33	to	to	PART	_	34 return	mark
34	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 told	xcomp
35	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 day	amod
36	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 return	obl:unmarked
37	for	for	ADP	_	39 information	case
38	further	further	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 information	amod
39	information	information	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 return	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	hear	past · perfect	the gardener		night		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
2	inquire speech: other	past · progressive	gardener			about the ship	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V PP.topic whether S»: agent=Agent about which=Topic
3	start	would	the ship			long property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
4	not know	gerund · passive		the exact date	yet		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus
5	tell speech: assert	past · perfect · passive		gardener			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
6	return not said to happen	to-infinitive	gardener not said here		day	for further information	vn escape-51.1-1 «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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