The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 4, sentence 78

The physician was beyond measure astonished when he heard he was to die.

Who acts: physician · What happens: be, hear · 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 (physician), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 physician	det
2	physician	physician	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 measure	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 measure	cop
4	beyond	beyond	ADP	_	5 measure	case
5	measure	measure	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	astonished	astonished	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 measure	amod
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 heard	advmod
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 heard	nsubj
9	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 measure	acl:relcl
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 die	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 die	cop
12	to	to	PART	_	13 die	mark
13	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 heard	ccomp
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 measure	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	past	the physician	beyond measure	tree rules
2	hear	past	physician		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	is	past	physician	die 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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