The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 33, sentence 34

I was resting in the shade under a tree, when a dervish, going on foot towards Balsora, sat down by my side, and I inquired whence he had come and to what place he was going.

Who acts: I, Balsora, place · What happens: rest, go, sit down, inquire, come · To what, where: shade, foot, 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 (I, Balsora, place), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 resting	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 resting	aux
3	resting	rest	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 shade	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 shade	det
6	shade	shade	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 resting	obl
7	under	under	ADP	_	9 tree	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 tree	det
9	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 resting	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 dervish	punct
11	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	13 dervish	advmod
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 dervish	det
13	dervish	dervish	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tree	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 going	punct
15	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 resting	conj
16	on	on	ADP	_	17 foot	case
17	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 going	obl
18	towards	towards	ADP	_	19 Balsora	case
19	Balsora	Balsora	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 going	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 sat	punct
21	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 resting	parataxis
22	down	down	ADP	_	21 sat	compound:prt
23	by	by	ADP	_	25 side	case
24	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 side	nmod:poss
25	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 sat	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 inquired	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 inquired	cc
28	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 inquired	nsubj
29	inquired	inquire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 sat	conj
30	whence	whence	ADV	PronType=Int	33 come	advmod
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 come	nsubj
32	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 come	aux
33	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	29 inquired	ccomp
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 what	cc
35	to	to	ADP	_	36 what	case
36	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	33 come	obl
37	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 what	nsubj
38	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 going	nsubj
39	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 going	aux
40	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	37 place	acl:relcl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 resting	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	rest	past · progressive	I		the shade	under a tree and a dervish	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent in shade=Location
2	go	gerund	I not said here		foot	towards Balsora	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme towards balsora=Initial_Location
3	sit down	past				by my side	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by side=Location
4	inquire speech: other	past	I				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	come	past · perfect	Balsora			whence property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to what=Initial_Location
6	go	past · progressive	place	place not said here			vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location 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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