The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 29, sentence 16

Before any of the merchants had bid, Saouy happened to pass that way, and judging that it must be a slave of extraordinary beauty, rode up to Hagi Hassan and desired to see her.

Who acts: Saouy, way · What happens: bid, happen, pass, judge, be, ride up · To what, where: any, way, slave, Hagi Hassan, Saouy

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Saouy, way), 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	Before	before	SCONJ	_	7 bid	mark
2	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	7 bid	nsubj:pass
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 merchants	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 merchants	det
5	merchants	merchant	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 any	nmod
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 bid	aux
7	bid	bid	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 happened	advcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 bid	punct
9	Saouy	Saouy	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 happened	nsubj
10	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	to	to	PART	_	12 pass	mark
12	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 happened	xcomp
13	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 way	det
14	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 pass	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 judging	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 judging	cc
17	judging	judge	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 happened	advcl
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 slave	mark
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 slave	nsubj
20	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 slave	aux
21	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 slave	cop
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 slave	det
23	slave	slave	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 judging	ccomp
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 beauty	case
25	extraordinary	extraordinary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 beauty	amod
26	beauty	beauty	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 slave	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 rode	punct
28	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 happened	parataxis
29	up	up	ADP	_	28 rode	compound:prt
30	to	to	ADP	_	32 Hassan	case
31	Hagi	Hagi	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 Hassan	compound
32	Hassan	Hassan	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 rode	obl
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 desired	cc
34	desired	desire	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 rode	conj
35	to	to	PART	_	36 see	mark
36	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 desired	xcomp
37	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 see	obj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 happened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	bid	past · perfect · passive		any			tree rules
2	happen	past	Saouy				tree rules
3	pass	to-infinitive	Saouy not said here	that way			vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme way=Trajectory
4	judge	gerund	Saouy not said here				vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent
5	is a	must	way	a slave		of extraordinary beauty	tree rules
6	ride up	past			Hagi Hassan		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to hassan=Trajectory
7	desire	participle					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
8	see not said to happen	to-infinitive		Saouy			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus

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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