The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 30, sentence 97

On this the stranger, who was a famous African magician, fell on his neck and kissed him, saying: "I am your uncle, and knew you from your likeness to my brother.

Who acts: stranger, I · What happens: be, fall, kiss, say, know · To what, where: famous African magician, stranger, tailor, uncle, you, likeness · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (stranger, I), 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	On	on	ADP	_	4 stranger	case
2	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 stranger	det
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 stranger	det
4	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 fell	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 magician	punct
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 magician	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 magician	cop
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 magician	det
9	famous	famous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 magician	amod
10	African	African	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 magician	amod
11	magician	magician	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stranger	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 stranger	punct
13	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	on	on	ADP	_	16 neck	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 neck	nmod:poss
16	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 fell	obl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 kissed	cc
18	kissed	kiss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 fell	conj
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 kissed	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 saying	punct
21	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 kissed	advcl
22	:	:	PUNCT	_	27 uncle	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	27 uncle	punct
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 uncle	nsubj
25	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 uncle	cop
26	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 uncle	nmod:poss
27	uncle	uncle	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 saying	ccomp
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 knew	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 knew	cc
30	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 fell	conj
31	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	30 knew	obj
32	from	from	ADP	_	34 likeness	case
33	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 likeness	nmod:poss
34	likeness	likeness	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 knew	obl
35	to	to	ADP	_	37 brother	case
36	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 brother	nmod:poss
37	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 knew	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 fell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	this stranger and a famous African magician	a famous African magician			tree rules
2	fall	past			this stranger and a famous African magician	on tailor's neck	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on stranger=Location
3	kiss	past		tailor			vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent
4	say speech: assert	gerund					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	is a in a quote	present	I	your uncle			tree rules
6	know in a quote	past		you	your likeness	to my brother	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer you=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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