The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 8, sentence 19

I was still debating on this subject when I was joined by this other calender, who stopped to greet me. "

Who acts: I, other calender · What happens: debate, join, stop, greet · To what, where: I, me

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 (I, other calender), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 debating	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 debating	aux
3	still	still	ADV	_	4 debating	advmod
4	debating	debate	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 subject	case
6	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 subject	det
7	subject	subject	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 debating	obl
8	when	when	SCONJ	_	11 joined	mark
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 joined	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 joined	aux:pass
11	joined	join	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 debating	advcl
12	by	by	ADP	_	15 calender	case
13	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 calender	det
14	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 calender	amod
15	calender	calendar	NOUN	Number=Sing Typo=Yes	11 joined	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 stopped	punct
17	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 stopped	nsubj
18	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 calender	acl:relcl
19	to	to	PART	_	20 greet	mark
20	greet	greet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 stopped	xcomp
21	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 greet	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 debating	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 debating	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	debate	past · progressive	I			still	on this subject	vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent on subject=Topic
2	join	past · passive	this other calender	I				vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient
3	stop	past	this other calender					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
4	greet speech: greet	to-infinitive	this other calender not said here		me			vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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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