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

The dervish said no more and left me, speechless with shame and confusion, and so wretched that I stood rooted to the spot, while he collected the eighty camels and proceeded on his way to Balsora.

Who acts: dervish · What happens: say, leave, root, collect, proceed · To what, where: more, me, I, eighty camels, way · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dervish), 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	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	no	no	ADV	_	5 more	advmod
5	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 said	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 left	cc
7	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 said	conj
8	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 left	iobj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 speechless	punct
10	speechless	speechless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 left	xcomp
11	with	with	ADP	_	12 shame	case
12	shame	shame	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 speechless	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 confusion	cc
14	confusion	confusion	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 shame	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 wretched	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 wretched	cc
17	so	so	ADV	_	18 wretched	advmod
18	wretched	wretched	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 said	parataxis
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 rooted	mark
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 rooted	nsubj
21	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 rooted	aux:pass
22	rooted	root	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 wretched	advcl
23	to	to	ADP	_	25 spot	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 spot	det
25	spot	spot	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 rooted	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 collected	punct
27	while	while	SCONJ	_	29 collected	mark
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 collected	nsubj
29	collected	collect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 said	parataxis
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 camels	det
31	eighty	eighty	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 camels	compound
32	camels	camel	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 collected	obj
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 proceeded	cc
34	proceeded	proceed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 collected	conj
35	on	on	ADP	_	37 way	case
36	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 way	nmod:poss
37	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 proceeded	obl
38	to	to	ADP	_	39 Balsora	case
39	Balsora	Balsora	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 way	nmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the dervish	more				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent more=Topic
2	leave	past	the dervish not said here		me		speechless property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
3	root	past · passive		I			to the spot	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient
4	collect	past	dervish	the eighty camels				vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent camel=Theme
5	proceed	past	dervish not said here			dervish's way to Balsora		vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=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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