The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 33, sentence 17

The Caliph, astonished at this proceeding, inquired of a passer-by what it all meant, but no one could tell him anything, except that every day at the same hour the same thing took place.

Who acts: it, one, same thing · What happens: astonish, inquire, mean, tell, take · To what, where: Caliph, proceeding, anything, place · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (it, one, same thing), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Caliph	det
2	Caliph	Caliph	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 astonished	punct
4	astonished	astonish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 Caliph	acl
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 proceeding	case
6	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 proceeding	det
7	proceeding	proceeding	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 astonished	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 inquired	punct
9	inquired	inquire	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 Caliph	acl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 passer	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 passer	det
12	passer	passer	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 inquired	obl
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 what	punct
14	by	by	ADP	_	15 what	case
15	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	12 passer	appos
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 meant	nsubj
17	all	all	ADV	_	18 meant	advmod
18	meant	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 what	acl:relcl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 tell	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 tell	cc
21	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	22 one	det
22	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 tell	nsubj
23	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 tell	aux
24	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 meant	ccomp
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 tell	iobj
26	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	24 tell	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 day	punct
28	except	except	ADP	_	31 day	case
29	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	31 day	det
30	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	31 day	det
31	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 tell	obl:unmarked
32	at	at	ADP	_	35 hour	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 hour	det
34	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 hour	amod
35	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 day	nmod
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 thing	det
37	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 thing	amod
38	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 took	nsubj
39	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 day	acl:relcl
40	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 took	obj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Caliph	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	astonish	participle		the Caliph not said here		this proceeding			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	inquire speech: other	participle		the Caliph not said here				of a passer	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent of passer=Recipient
3	mean	past	it					all property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	tell speech: assert	could	no one	anything	Caliph		day		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient anything=Topic
5	take	past	the same thing	place					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme

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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