The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 4, sentence 103

He did the same thing till he reached the sixth page, and not seeing any writing on it, "Physician," he said, "there is no writing."

Who acts: king, writing · What happens: do, reach, not see, say, be · To what, where: same thing, sixth page, writing · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, writing), 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	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 thing	det
4	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 thing	amod
5	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obj
6	till	till	SCONJ	_	8 reached	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 reached	nsubj
8	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 did	advcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 page	det
10	sixth	sixth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 page	amod
11	page	page	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 reached	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 seeing	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 seeing	cc
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 seeing	advmod
15	seeing	see	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 did	advcl
16	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	17 writing	det
17	writing	writing	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 seeing	obj
18	on	on	ADP	_	19 it	case
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 seeing	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 Physician	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	22 Physician	punct
22	Physician	physician	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 said	ccomp
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 Physician	punct
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	22 Physician	punct
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 said	nsubj
26	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 seeing	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 is	punct
28	"	"	PUNCT	_	30 is	punct
29	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	30 is	expl
30	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	parataxis
31	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	32 writing	det
32	writing	writing	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 is	nsubj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	30 is	punct
34	"	"	PUNCT	_	30 is	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	do	past	king	the same thing		tree rules
2	reach	past	king	the sixth page		vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent page=Theme
3	not see	gerund	king not said here	any writing	writing	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer writing=Stimulus
4	say speech: assert	past	king			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	be in a quote	present	no writing		there	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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