The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 6, sentence 38

At length, seeing that the sun was about to set, Sadia said to the porter, "Rise and go; it is now time for us to separate."

Who acts: length, sun, Sadia, us · What happens: see, be, set, say, rise, go · To what, where: porter, length, time · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (length, sun, Sadia, us), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 length	case
2	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 said	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 seeing	punct
4	seeing	see	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 length	acl
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 about	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sun	det
7	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 about	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 about	cop
9	about	about	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 seeing	obl
10	to	to	PART	_	11 set	mark
11	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 about	xcomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 length	punct
13	Sadia	Sadia	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 said	nsubj
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 porter	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 porter	det
17	porter	porter	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 said	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 Rise	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 Rise	punct
20	Rise	rise	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	14 said	parataxis
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 go	cc
22	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	20 Rise	conj
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 time	punct
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 time	nsubj
25	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 time	cop
26	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	27 time	advmod
27	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 said	obl
28	for	for	SCONJ	_	31 separate	mark
29	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 separate	nsubj
30	to	to	PART	_	31 separate	mark
31	separate	separate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 time	acl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	31 separate	punct
33	"	"	PUNCT	_	31 separate	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	gerund	length not said here						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is	past	the sun					about property	tree rules
3	set	to-infinitive	the sun not said here						vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	say speech: assert	past	Sadia		the porter	length			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to porter=Recipient clause=Topic
5	rise in a quote	infinitive							vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	go in a quote	infinitive							vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	is a in a quote	present	sun	time			now		tree rules
8	separate in a quote	to-infinitive	us						vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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