The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 32, sentence 1

But far away in Africa the magician remembered Aladdin, and by his magic arts discovered that Aladdin, instead of perishing miserably in the cave, had escaped, and had married a princess, with whom he was living in great honour and wealth.

Who acts: magician · What happens: remember, discover, perish, escape, marry, live · To what, where: Aladdin, cave, princess, great honour

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (magician), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 away	cc
2	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 away	advmod
3	away	away	ADV	_	8 remembered	advmod
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 Africa	case
5	Africa	Africa	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 away	obl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 magician	det
7	magician	magician	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 remembered	nsubj
8	remembered	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	Aladdin	Aladdin	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 remembered	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 discovered	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 discovered	cc
12	by	by	ADP	_	15 arts	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 arts	nmod:poss
14	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 arts	amod
15	arts	art	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 discovered	obl
16	discovered	discover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 remembered	parataxis
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 Aladdin	mark
18	Aladdin	Aladdin	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 discovered	xcomp
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 perishing	punct
20	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=SCONJ	22 perishing	mark
21	of	of	ADP	_	20 instead	fixed
22	perishing	perish	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 discovered	advcl
23	miserably	miserably	ADV	_	22 perishing	advmod
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 cave	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 cave	det
26	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 perishing	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 escaped	punct
28	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 escaped	aux
29	escaped	escape	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 discovered	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 married	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 married	cc
32	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 married	aux
33	married	marry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 remembered	parataxis
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 princess	det
35	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 married	obj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 whom	punct
37	with	with	ADP	_	38 whom	case
38	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	41 living	obj
39	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 living	nsubj
40	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 living	aux
41	living	live	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	33 married	conj
42	in	in	ADP	_	44 honour	case
43	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 honour	amod
44	honour	honour	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 living	obl
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 wealth	cc
46	wealth	wealth	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 honour	conj
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 remembered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	remember	past	the magician	Aladdin		away property	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent aladdin=Theme
2	discover	past				by magician's magic arts	vn discover-84-1 «NP V PP.topic S_ING»: agent=Agent
3	perish	gerund			the cave	miserably property	vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient
4	escape	past · perfect					vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	marry	past · perfect		a princess			vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Patient
6	live	past · progressive	magician		great honour and wealth		vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme whom=Location

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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