The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 6, sentence 7

The porter, who was greatly pleased by her appearance and voice, jumped up at once, poised his basket on his head, and accompanied the lady, saying to himself as he went, "Oh, happy day!

Who acts: porter, man · What happens: be, jump up, poise, accompany, say, go · To what, where: basket, head, lady, man · 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 (porter, man), 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 porter	det
2	porter	porter	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 jumped	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 pleased	punct
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 pleased	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 pleased	cop
6	greatly	greatly	ADV	_	7 pleased	advmod
7	pleased	pleased	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 porter	conj
8	by	by	ADP	_	10 appearance	case
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 appearance	nmod:poss
10	appearance	appearance	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pleased	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 voice	cc
12	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 appearance	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 porter	punct
14	jumped	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	up	up	ADP	_	14 jumped	compound:prt
16	at	at	ADP	_	17 once	case
17	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	14 jumped	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 poised	punct
19	poised	poise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 jumped	conj
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 basket	nmod:poss
21	basket	basket	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 poised	obj
22	on	on	ADP	_	24 head	case
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 head	nmod:poss
24	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 poised	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 accompanied	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 accompanied	cc
27	accompanied	accompany	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 jumped	parataxis
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 lady	det
29	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 accompanied	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 saying	punct
31	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 accompanied	advcl
32	to	to	ADP	_	33 himself	case
33	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	31 saying	obl
34	as	as	SCONJ	_	36 went	mark
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 went	nsubj
36	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 saying	ccomp
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 day	punct
38	"	"	PUNCT	_	42 day	punct
39	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	42 day	discourse
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 Oh	punct
41	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 day	amod
42	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 went	obl
43	!	!	PUNCT	_	14 jumped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the porter					by porter's appearance and voice; greatly, pleased property	tree rules
2	jump up	past	the porter						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at once=Trajectory
3	poise	past	the porter not said here	man's basket		man's head			tree rules
4	accompany	past		the lady					vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lady=Theme
5	say speech: assert	gerund			man				vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to himself=Experiencer clause=Topic
6	go	past	man				day		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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