The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 39, sentence 69

Still, as the day went on, the malady seemed to become worse, and by night it was almost violent.

Who acts: day, malady · What happens: go on, seem, become, be

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (day, malady), 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	Still	still	ADV	_	6 went	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Still	punct
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	6 went	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 day	det
5	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 went	nsubj
6	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	on	on	ADV	_	6 went	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 seemed	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 malady	det
10	malady	malady	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 seemed	nsubj
11	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 went	conj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 become	mark
13	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 seemed	xcomp
14	worse	badly	ADV	Degree=Cmp	13 become	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 violent	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 violent	cc
17	by	by	ADP	_	18 night	case
18	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 violent	obl
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 violent	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 violent	cop
21	almost	almost	ADV	_	22 violent	advmod
22	violent	violent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 went	conj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	go on	past	the day	still		vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	seem	past	the malady			vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
3	become	to-infinitive	the malady not said here		badly property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
4	is	past	malady	night	almost, violent property	tree rules

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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