The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 38, sentence 65

But my eyes have been opened, and I begin to perceive that, wherever there is a great king he will surround himself with buildings worthy of him."

Who acts: I, great king, King · What happens: open, begin, perceive, be, surround · To what, where: eyes, that, King

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, great king, King), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 opened	cc
2	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 eyes	nmod:poss
3	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 opened	nsubj:pass
4	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 opened	aux
5	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 opened	aux:pass
6	opened	open	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 begin	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 begin	cc
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 begin	nsubj
10	begin	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 opened	conj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 perceive	mark
12	perceive	perceive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 begin	xcomp
13	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 perceive	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 is	punct
15	wherever	wherever	ADV	PronType=Int	17 is	advmod
16	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	17 is	expl
17	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 perceive	advcl
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 king	det
19	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 king	amod
20	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 is	nsubj
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 surround	nsubj
22	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 surround	aux
23	surround	surround	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 king	acl:relcl
24	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	23 surround	obj
25	with	with	ADP	_	26 buildings	case
26	buildings	building	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 surround	obl
27	worthy	worthy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 buildings	amod
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 him	case
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 worthy	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 opened	punct
31	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 opened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	open	present · perfect · passive		my eyes			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
2	begin	present	I				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	perceive	to-infinitive	I not said here	that			vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus
4	be	present	a great king		there	wherever property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	surround	future	King	King		with buildings	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent himself=Destination with building=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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