The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 4, sentence 45

He stopped, and having lost sight of it, he turned to rejoin the vizir, who had not been careful enough to follow him.

Who acts: vizir · What happens: stop, have, lose, turn, rejoin, not be · To what, where: lost sight, vizir, sight

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 (vizir), 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 stopped	nsubj
2	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 turned	punct
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 turned	cc
5	having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 turned	advcl
6	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 sight	amod
7	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 having	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 it	case
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 sight	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 having	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 turned	nsubj
12	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 stopped	conj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 rejoin	mark
14	rejoin	rejoin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 turned	xcomp
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 vizir	det
16	vizir	vizir	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 rejoin	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 careful	punct
18	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 careful	nsubj
19	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 careful	aux
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 careful	advmod
21	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	22 careful	cop
22	careful	careful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 vizir	appos
23	enough	enough	ADV	_	22 careful	advmod
24	to	to	PART	_	25 follow	mark
25	follow	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 careful	advcl
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 follow	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 stopped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	stop	past	vizir			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	have	gerund	vizir not said here	lost sight of sight		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Patient
3	lose	participle				vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	turn	past	vizir			tree rules
5	rejoin	to-infinitive	vizir not said here	the vizir		vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vizir=Patient
6	not is	past · perfect	the vizir		careful, enough property	tree rules
7	follow	to-infinitive	the vizir not said here	vizir		vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
8	sight			sight		nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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