The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 8, sentence 10

My heart sank when I perceived that the commander was the vizir who had dethroned my father, and was come to seize the kingdom of my uncle.

Who acts: heart, I, commander, vizir · What happens: sink, perceive, be, dethrone, come, seize · To what, where: vizir, father, kingdom

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (heart, I, commander, vizir), 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	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 heart	nmod:poss
2	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sank	nsubj
3	sank	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 perceived	advmod
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 perceived	nsubj
6	perceived	perceive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sank	advcl
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 vizir	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 commander	det
9	commander	commander	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 vizir	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 vizir	cop
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 vizir	det
12	vizir	vizir	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 perceived	ccomp
13	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 dethroned	nsubj
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 dethroned	aux
15	dethroned	dethrone	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 vizir	acl:relcl
16	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 father	nmod:poss
17	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 dethroned	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 come	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 come	cc
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 come	aux:pass
21	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 sank	parataxis
22	to	to	PART	_	23 seize	mark
23	seize	seize	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 come	advcl
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 kingdom	det
25	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 seize	obj
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 uncle	case
27	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 uncle	nmod:poss
28	uncle	uncle	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 kingdom	nmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sank	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	sink	past	My heart		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	perceive	past	I		vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3	is a	past	the commander	the vizir	tree rules
4	dethrone	past · perfect	the vizir	my father	tree rules
5	come	past · passive			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»
6	seize	to-infinitive		the kingdom of my uncle	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kingdom=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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