The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 6, sentence 26

But instead of taking up his basket and going away, the man still lingered, till Zobeida inquired what he was waiting for, and if he expected more money. "

Who acts: man, Zobeida · What happens: take up, go away, linger, inquire, wait, expect · To what, where: basket, more money

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, Zobeida), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 taking	cc
2	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=SCONJ	4 taking	mark
3	of	of	ADP	_	2 instead	fixed
4	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 taking	compound:prt
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 basket	nmod:poss
7	basket	basket	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 taking	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 going	cc
9	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 taking	conj
10	away	away	ADV	_	9 going	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 lingered	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 man	det
13	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 lingered	nsubj
14	still	still	ADV	_	15 lingered	advmod
15	lingered	linger	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 taking	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 inquired	punct
17	till	till	SCONJ	_	19 inquired	mark
18	Zobeida	Zobeida	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 inquired	nsubj
19	inquired	inquire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 lingered	parataxis
20	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	23 waiting	obj
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 waiting	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 waiting	aux
23	waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 inquired	obl
24	for	for	ADP	_	23 waiting	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 expected	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 expected	cc
27	if	if	SCONJ	_	29 expected	mark
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 expected	nsubj
29	expected	expect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 inquired	conj
30	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	31 money	amod
31	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 expected	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 taking	punct
33	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 taking	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	take up	gerund		Amina's basket			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent basket=Theme
2	go away	gerund				away property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	linger	participle	the man		still		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	inquire speech: other	past	Zobeida				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	wait	past · progressive	man				tree rules
6	expect a condition, not said to happen	past	man	more money			vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=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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