The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 33, sentence 36

While we were eating, the dervish happened to mention that in a spot only a little way off from where we were sitting, there was hidden a treasure so great that if my eighty camels were loaded till they could carry no more, the hiding place would seem as full as if it had never been touched.

Who acts: we, dervish, camels, hiding place · What happens: eat, happen, mention, sit, hide, load · To what, where: treasure, eighty camels, more, dervish · 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 (we, dervish, camels, hiding 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	While	while	SCONJ	_	4 eating	mark
2	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 eating	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 eating	aux
4	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 happened	advcl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 eating	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 dervish	det
7	dervish	dervish	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 happened	nsubj
8	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	to	to	PART	_	10 mention	mark
10	mention	mention	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 happened	xcomp
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 hidden	mark
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 spot	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 spot	det
14	spot	spot	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 off	obl
15	only	only	ADV	_	18 way	advmod
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 way	det
17	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 way	amod
18	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 spot	nmod
19	off	off	ADV	_	28 hidden	advmod
20	from	from	ADP	_	21 where	case
21	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	19 off	obl
22	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 sitting	nsubj
23	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 sitting	aux
24	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	21 where	advcl:relcl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 hidden	punct
26	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	28 hidden	expl
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 hidden	aux:pass
28	hidden	hide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 mention	ccomp
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 treasure	det
30	treasure	treasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 hidden	obj
31	so	so	ADV	_	32 great	advmod
32	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 hidden	xcomp
33	that	that	SCONJ	_	39 loaded	mark
34	if	if	SCONJ	_	39 loaded	mark
35	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 camels	nmod:poss
36	eighty	eighty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 camels	amod
37	camels	camel	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 loaded	nsubj:pass
38	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 loaded	aux:pass
39	loaded	load	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	32 great	advcl
40	till	till	SCONJ	_	43 carry	mark
41	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 carry	nsubj
42	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	43 carry	aux
43	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 loaded	advcl
44	no	no	ADV	_	45 more	advmod
45	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	43 carry	obj
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 seem	punct
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 place	det
48	hiding	hiding	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 place	compound
49	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 seem	nsubj
50	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	51 seem	aux
51	seem	seem	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	43 carry	conj
52	as	as	ADV	_	53 full	advmod
53	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 seem	xcomp
54	as	as	SCONJ	_	60 touched	mark
55	if	if	SCONJ	_	60 touched	mark
56	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	60 touched	nsubj:pass
57	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	60 touched	aux
58	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	60 touched	advmod
59	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	60 touched	aux:pass
60	touched	touch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	53 full	advcl
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 happened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	eat	past · progressive	we				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	happen	past	the dervish				tree rules
3	mention speech: other	to-infinitive	the dervish not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	sit	past · progressive	we				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	hide	past · passive		a treasure	there	great, off property	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: treasure=Patient
6	load	past · passive		my eighty camels			vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme
7	carry	could	camels = camel	more			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Theme
8	seem	would	the hiding place			full property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
9	not touch	past · perfect · passive		dervish			vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-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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