The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 6, sentence 73

Not knowing what to do, we wandered in the streets till we happened to pass your house, when, seeing lights and hearing the sound of voices, we resolved to ask you to give us shelter till the dawn.

Who acts: we · What happens: not know, do, wander, happen, pass, see · To what, where: streets, house, lights, sound, you, shelter

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 (we), 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	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 knowing	advmod
2	knowing	know	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 wandered	advcl
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 do	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 do	mark
5	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 knowing	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 knowing	punct
7	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 wandered	nsubj
8	wandered	wander	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 streets	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 streets	det
11	streets	street	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 wandered	obl
12	till	till	SCONJ	_	14 happened	mark
13	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 happened	nsubj
14	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 wandered	advcl
15	to	to	PART	_	16 pass	mark
16	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 happened	xcomp
17	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 house	nmod:poss
18	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 pass	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 when	punct
20	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 wandered	parataxis
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 seeing	punct
22	seeing	see	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 wandered	advcl
23	lights	light	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 seeing	obj
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 hearing	cc
25	hearing	hear	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 seeing	conj
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 sound	det
27	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 hearing	obj
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 voices	case
29	voices	voice	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 sound	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 resolved	punct
31	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 resolved	nsubj
32	resolved	resolve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 wandered	conj
33	to	to	PART	_	34 ask	mark
34	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 resolved	xcomp
35	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	34 ask	iobj
36	to	to	PART	_	37 give	mark
37	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 ask	xcomp
38	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	37 give	iobj
39	shelter	shelter	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 give	obj
40	till	till	ADP	_	42 dawn	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 dawn	det
42	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 give	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 wandered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	not know	gerund	we not said here					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	do	to-infinitive	we not said here					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
3	wander	past	we			the streets		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in street=Trajectory
4	happen	past	we					tree rules
5	pass	to-infinitive	we not said here	your house				vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme house=Trajectory
6	see	gerund	we not said here	lights				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer light=Stimulus
7	hear	gerund	we not said here	the sound of voices				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer sound=Stimulus
8	resolve	past	we					tree rules
9	ask speech: ask	to-infinitive	we not said here		you			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic
10	give not said to happen	to-infinitive	we not said here	shelter	us		dawn	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent we=Recipient shelter=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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