The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 27, sentence 49

Camaralzaman was much surprised at hearing the king--whom he never suspected of being a woman in disguise--asserting their acquaintance, for he felt sure he had never seen her before.

Who acts: Camaralzaman, women · What happens: be, hear, not suspect, assert, feel, not see · To what, where: king, disguise, acquaintance, colleague

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Camaralzaman, women), 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	Camaralzaman	Camaralzaman	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 surprised	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 surprised	cop
3	much	much	ADV	_	4 surprised	advmod
4	surprised	surprised	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	at	at	SCONJ	_	6 hearing	mark
6	hearing	hear	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 surprised	advcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 king	det
8	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hearing	obj
9	--	--	PUNCT	_	10 whom	punct
10	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 surprised	obl
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 suspected	nsubj
12	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	13 suspected	advmod
13	suspected	suspect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 whom	acl:relcl
14	of	of	ADP	_	17 woman	case
15	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 woman	cop
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 woman	det
17	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 suspected	obl
18	in	in	ADP	_	19 disguise	case
19	disguise	disguise	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 woman	nmod
20	--	--	PUNCT	_	21 asserting	punct
21	asserting	assert	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 suspected	advcl
22	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 acquaintance	nmod:poss
23	acquaintance	acquaintance	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 asserting	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 felt	punct
25	for	for	SCONJ	_	27 felt	mark
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 felt	nsubj
27	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 surprised	conj
28	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 felt	xcomp
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 seen	nsubj
30	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 seen	aux
31	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	32 seen	advmod
32	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	27 felt	ccomp
33	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 seen	obj
34	before	before	ADV	_	32 seen	advmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 surprised	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	Camaralzaman			surprised property	tree rules
2	hear	gerund	Camaralzaman not said here	the king			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer king=Stimulus
3	not suspect	past	Camaralzaman				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
4	is	gerund			disguise	of a woman	tree rules
5	assert	gerund	Camaralzaman not said here	women's acquaintance			vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent acquaintance=Theme
6	feel	past	Camaralzaman			sure property	vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
7	not see	past · perfect	Camaralzaman	colleague		before property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus
8	acquaint		women = woman				nom acquaintance «cognition 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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