The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 34, sentence 35

He was deaf to my prayers and cries, and I should soon have been dead of hunger and misery if some merchants had not come along the track the following day and kindly brought me back to Bagdad.

Who acts: dervish, I, merchants, my · What happens: be, cry, not come, follow, bring back, pray · To what, where: track, me, Bagdad

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, I, merchants, my), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 deaf	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 deaf	cop
3	deaf	deaf	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 prayers	case
5	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 prayers	nmod:poss
6	prayers	prayer	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 deaf	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 cries	cc
8	cries	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 deaf	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 dead	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 dead	cc
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 dead	nsubj
12	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 dead	aux
13	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	16 dead	advmod
14	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 dead	aux
15	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 dead	cop
16	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 deaf	conj
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 hunger	case
18	hunger	hunger	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 dead	obl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 misery	cc
20	misery	misery	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 hunger	conj
21	if	if	SCONJ	_	26 come	mark
22	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	23 merchants	det
23	merchants	merchant	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 come	nsubj
24	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 come	aux
25	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 come	advmod
26	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 deaf	advcl
27	along	along	ADP	_	29 track	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 track	det
29	track	track	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 come	obl
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 day	det
31	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	32 day	amod
32	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 come	obl:unmarked
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 brought	cc
34	kindly	kindly	ADV	_	35 brought	advmod
35	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 deaf	conj
36	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	35 brought	obj
37	back	back	ADV	_	35 brought	advmod
38	to	to	ADP	_	39 Bagdad	case
39	Bagdad	Bagdad	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 brought	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 deaf	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	dervish					to my prayers; deaf property	tree rules
2	cry speech: express	present	dervish not said here						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	should · perfect	I					of hunger and misery; dead, soon property	tree rules
4	not come a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	some merchants			the track	day		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme along track=Initial_Location
5	follow	gerund							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	bring back	past	dervish not said here	me	Bagdad			kindly property	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme to bagdad=Destination
7	pray		my						nom prayer «act intransitive»: 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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/34/35/