The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 42, sentence 17

When the dervish saw that the prince's mind was made up, he drew a ball from a bag that lay near him, and held it out. "

Who acts: dervish, bag, prince · What happens: see, make up, draw, lie, hold out, mind · To what, where: mind, ball, bag · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 42. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dervish, bag, prince), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 saw	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 dervish	det
3	dervish	dervish	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 saw	nsubj
4	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 drew	advcl
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 made	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 prince	det
7	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 mind	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 prince	case
9	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 made	nsubj:pass
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 made	aux:pass
11	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 saw	ccomp
12	up	up	ADP	_	11 made	compound:prt
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 saw	punct
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 drew	nsubj
15	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 held	advcl
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 ball	det
17	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 drew	obj
18	from	from	ADP	_	20 bag	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 bag	det
20	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 drew	obl
21	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 lay	nsubj
22	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 bag	acl:relcl
23	near	near	ADP	_	24 him	case
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 lay	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 held	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 held	cc
27	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 held	obj
29	out	out	ADP	_	27 held	compound:prt
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	27 held	punct
31	"	"	PUNCT	_	27 held	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	see	past	the dervish				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	make up	past · passive		the prince's mind			vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Pivot
3	draw	past	dervish	a ball	a bag		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent ball=Theme from bag=Initial_Location
4	lie	past	a bag			near dervish	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent near he=Location
5	hold out	past		ball			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
6	mind		the prince				nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

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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