The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 6, sentence 81

While the vizir, Giafar, was talking to the ladies the Caliph was occupied in wondering who they could be, and why the three Calenders had each lost his right eye.

Who acts: Caliph, three Calenders, each · What happens: talk, be, wonder, have, lose · To what, where: each, right eye · 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 (Caliph, three Calenders, each), 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	While	while	SCONJ	_	3 vizir	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 vizir	det
3	vizir	vizir	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 talking	advcl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 Giafar	punct
5	Giafar	Giafar	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 vizir	appos
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 vizir	punct
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 talking	aux
8	talking	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 occupied	csubj
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 ladies	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 ladies	det
11	ladies	lady	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 talking	obl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Caliph	det
13	Caliph	Caliph	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 occupied	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 occupied	cop
15	occupied	occupied	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
16	in	in	SCONJ	_	17 wondering	mark
17	wondering	wonder	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 occupied	advcl
18	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 be	nsubj
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 be	nsubj
20	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 be	aux
21	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 wondering	ccomp
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 had	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 had	cc
24	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	28 had	advmod
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 Calenders	det
26	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 Calenders	nummod
27	Calenders	calender	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 had	nsubj
28	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 occupied	parataxis
29	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	28 had	obj
30	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 had	xcomp
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 eye	nmod:poss
32	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 eye	amod
33	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 lost	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 occupied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	talk	past · progressive			to the ladies	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to lady=Co-Agent
2	is	past	the Caliph		occupied property	tree rules
3	wonder speech: ask	gerund	the Caliph not said here			vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	can	could				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	have	past	the three Calenders	each		tree rules
6	lose	participle	each not said here	Caliph's right eye		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Eventuality

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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