The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 6, sentence 58

The ladies replied with words of welcome, and they were all about to seat themselves when the eyes of the Calenders fell on the porter, whose dress was not so very unlike their own, though he still wore all the hair that nature had given him. "

Who acts: Ladies, dress, Amina · What happens: reply, be, fall, not be, wear, give · To what, where: ladies, seat, porter, hair, nature, Amina

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 (Ladies, dress, Amina), 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 ladies	det
2	ladies	lady	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 fell	nsubj
3	replied	reply	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 ladies	acl
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 words	case
5	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 replied	obl
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 welcome	case
7	welcome	welcome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 words	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 seat	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 seat	cc
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 seat	nsubj
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 seat	cop
12	all	all	ADV	_	13 about	advmod
13	about	about	ADV	_	15 seat	advmod
14	to	to	PART	_	15 seat	mark
15	seat	seat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ladies	conj
16	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	15 seat	nmod:unmarked
17	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	23 fell	advmod
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 eyes	det
19	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 fell	nsubj
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 Calenders	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 Calenders	det
22	Calenders	calender	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 eyes	nmod
23	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
24	on	on	ADP	_	26 porter	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 porter	det
26	porter	porter	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 fell	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 dress	punct
28	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	29 dress	nmod:poss
29	dress	dress	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 own	nsubj
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 own	cop
31	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	36 own	advmod
32	so	so	ADV	_	36 own	advmod
33	very	very	ADV	_	36 own	advmod
34	unlike	unlike	ADP	_	36 own	case
35	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 own	nmod:poss
36	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 porter	acl:relcl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 wore	punct
38	though	though	SCONJ	_	41 wore	mark
39	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 wore	nsubj
40	still	still	ADV	_	41 wore	advmod
41	wore	wear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 fell	conj
42	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	44 hair	det:predet
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 hair	det
44	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 wore	obj
45	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	48 given	obj
46	nature	nature	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 given	nsubj:pass
47	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	48 given	aux
48	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	44 hair	acl:relcl
49	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 given	iobj
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	23 fell	punct
51	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 fell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reply speech: assert	participle		the ladies and seat not said here				with words of welcome	vn respond-113 «NP V PP.predicate»: agent=Agent with word=Eventuality
2	is a	past	Ladies = lady	seat				Ladies = lady nmod:unmarked; about property	tree rules
3	fall	past	the ladies and seat			the porter			vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on porter=Location
4	not is	past	dress					own property	tree rules
5	wear	past	Amina	all hair			still		vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent hair=Source
6	give	past · perfect · passive		nature	Amina				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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