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The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 41, sentence 90

Prince Bahman, who, remembering the directions of the old woman, had been since sunrise on the look-out for some one, recognised the old man at once to be a dervish.

Who acts: Bahman · What happens: remember, be, recognise · To what, where: directions, look out, old man, dervish

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 41. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bahman), 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

nmod:descnsubjpunctnsubjpunctconjdetobjcasedetamodnmodpunctauxcopcaseapposcasedetcompoundpunctnmodcasedetnmodpunctdetamodobjcaseoblmarkcopdetadvclpunctrootPrincePROPNBahmanPROPN,PUNCTwhoPRON,PUNCTrememberingVERBtheDETdirectionsNOUNofADPtheDEToldADJwomanNOUN,PUNCThadAUXbeenAUXsinceADPsunriseNOUNonADPtheDETlookNOUN-PUNCToutNOUNforADPsomeDEToneNOUN,PUNCTrecognisedVERBtheDEToldADJmanNOUNatADPonceADVtoPARTbeAUXaDETdervishNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1PrincePrincePROPNNumber=Sing2 Bahmannmod:desc
2BahmanBahmanPROPNNumber=Sing27 recognisednsubj
3,,PUNCT_6 rememberingpunct
4whowhoPRONPronType=Rel6 rememberingnsubj
5,,PUNCT_6 rememberingpunct
6rememberingrememberVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part2 Bahmanconj
7thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art8 directionsdet
8directionsdirectionNOUNNumber=Plur6 rememberingobj
9ofofADP_12 womancase
10thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art12 womandet
11oldoldADJDegree=Pos12 womanamod
12womanwomanNOUNNumber=Sing8 directionsnmod
13,,PUNCT_17 sunrisepunct
14hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin17 sunriseaux
15beenbeAUXTense=Past VerbForm=Part17 sunrisecop
16sincesinceADP_17 sunrisecase
17sunrisesunriseNOUNNumber=Sing2 Bahmanappos
18ononADP_22 outcase
19thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art22 outdet
20looklookNOUNNumber=Sing22 outcompound
21--PUNCT_20 lookpunct
22outoutNOUNNumber=Sing17 sunrisenmod
23forforADP_25 onecase
24somesomeDETPronType=Ind25 onedet
25oneoneNOUNNumber=Sing22 outnmod
26,,PUNCT_2 Bahmanpunct
27recognisedrecogniseVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
28thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art30 mandet
29oldoldADJDegree=Pos30 manamod
30manmanNOUNNumber=Sing27 recognisedobj
31atatADP_32 oncecase
32onceonceADVNumForm=Word NumType=Mult27 recognisedobl
33totoPART_36 dervishmark
34bebeAUXVerbForm=Inf36 dervishcop
35aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art36 dervishdet
36dervishdervishNOUNNumber=Sing32 onceadvcl
37..PUNCT_27 recognisedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1remembergerundBahman Princethe directions of the old womanvn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent direction=Theme
2ispast · perfectthe look out for some onesince sunrisetree rules
3recognisepastBahman Princethe old manvn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus
4is ato-infinitiveBahman Prince not said herea dervishtree 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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