The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 36, sentence 21

In fact, it was only a month before Ali Cogia's actual return that the affair came into his head at all, owing to his wife's remarking one day, that it was a long time since she had eaten any olives, and would like some.

Who acts: fact, affair, wife, Ali Cogia · What happens: be, come, owe, remark, eat, like · To what, where: month, fact, actual return, head, wife, long time

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fact, affair, wife, Ali Cogia), 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 fact	case
2	fact	fact	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 month	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 fact	punct
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 month	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 month	cop
6	only	only	ADV	_	8 month	advmod
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 month	det
8	month	month	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	before	before	ADP	_	14 return	case
10	Ali	Ali	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Cogia	compound
11	Cogia	Cogia	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 return	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 Cogia	case
13	actual	actual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 return	amod
14	return	return	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 month	nmod
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 came	mark
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 affair	det
17	affair	affair	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 came	nsubj
18	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 return	acl:relcl
19	into	into	ADP	_	21 head	case
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 head	nmod:poss
21	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 came	obl
22	at	at	ADP	_	23 all	case
23	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	21 head	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 owing	punct
25	owing	owe	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 came	advcl
26	to	to	ADP	_	28 wife	case
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 wife	nmod:poss
28	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 owing	obl
29	's	's	PART	_	28 wife	case
30	remarking	remark	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 owing	conj
31	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	32 day	nummod
32	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 remarking	obl:unmarked
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 time	punct
34	that	that	SCONJ	_	39 time	mark
35	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 time	nsubj
36	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 time	cop
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 time	det
38	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 time	amod
39	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 remarking	obl:unmarked
40	since	since	SCONJ	_	43 eaten	mark
41	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 eaten	nsubj
42	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 eaten	aux
43	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	39 time	acl:relcl
44	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	45 olives	det
45	olives	olive	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 eaten	obj
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 like	punct
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 like	cc
48	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	49 like	aux
49	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 month	conj
50	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	49 like	obj
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 month	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	is a	past	fact	a month		fact	before Ali Cogia's actual return	tree rules
2	come	past	the affair	Ali Cogia's actual return not said here		Ali's head at all		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location return=Theme
3	owe	gerund	the affair not said here		Ali's wife			vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent to wife=Goal
4	remark speech: assert	gerund	the affair not said here				day	vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is a	past	affair	a long time				tree rules
6	eat	past · perfect	wife	any olives				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent olive=Patient
7	like	would	fact not said here	some				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot some=Theme
8	return		Ali Cogia					nom return «communication 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.

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