The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 33, sentence 58

The dervish likewise set to work, but I soon noticed that he confined himself to collecting precious stones, and I felt I should be wise to follow his example.

Who acts: dervish, I, Commander · What happens: set, work, notice, confine, collect, feel · To what, where: Commander, precious stones, example · 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 (dervish, I, Commander), 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 dervish	det
2	dervish	dervish	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 set	nsubj
3	likewise	likewise	ADV	_	4 set	advmod
4	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 work	mark
6	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 set	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 noticed	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 noticed	cc
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 noticed	nsubj
10	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 noticed	advmod
11	noticed	notice	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 set	parataxis
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 confined	mark
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 confined	nsubj
14	confined	confine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 noticed	ccomp
15	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	14 confined	obj
16	to	to	SCONJ	_	17 collecting	mark
17	collecting	collect	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 confined	advcl
18	precious	precious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 stones	amod
19	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 collecting	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 felt	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 felt	cc
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 felt	nsubj
23	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 noticed	conj
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 wise	nsubj
25	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 wise	aux
26	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	27 wise	cop
27	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 felt	xcomp
28	to	to	PART	_	29 follow	mark
29	follow	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 wise	csubj
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 example	nmod:poss
31	example	example	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 follow	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 set	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	set	past	the dervish		likewise property	tree rules
2	work	to-infinitive	the dervish not said here			vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	notice	past	I		soon property	vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	confine	past	Commander	Commander		vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme
5	collect	gerund	Commander not said here	precious stones		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Theme
6	feel	past	I			vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
7	is	should	I		wise property	tree rules
8	follow	to-infinitive		Commander's example		vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent example=Theme
9	exemplify		Commander			nom example «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

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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