The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 30, sentence 7

Recognising him at once in spite of his disguise, he threw himself at his feet imploring forgiveness.

Who acts: fisherman · What happens: recognise, throw, implore, spite · To what, where: fisherman, spite, feet, forgiveness, disguise

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fisherman), 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	Recognising	recognise	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 threw	advcl
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Recognising	obj
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 once	case
4	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	1 Recognising	obl
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 spite	case
6	spite	spite	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Recognising	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 disguise	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 disguise	nmod:poss
9	disguise	disguise	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 spite	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Recognising	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 threw	nsubj
12	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	12 threw	obj
14	at	at	ADP	_	16 feet	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 feet	nmod:poss
16	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 threw	obl
17	imploring	implore	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 threw	advcl
18	forgiveness	forgiveness	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 imploring	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 threw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	recognise	gerund	fisherman not said here	fisherman	spite of fisherman's disguise	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
2	throw	past	fisherman	fisherman	fisherman's feet	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent himself=Theme at foot=Destination
3	implore	gerund	fisherman not said here	forgiveness		vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent forgiveness=Recipient
4	spite			fisherman's disguise		nom spite «feeling transitive»: of=patient

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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