The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 9, sentence 55

The dervish did as he was asked without delay, and directly they were alone together the envious man began to tell a long story, edging, as they walked to and fro, always nearer to the well, and when they were quite close, he seized the dervish and dropped him in.

Who acts: dervish, houses, envious man · What happens: do, ask, be, begin, tell, edge · To what, where: dervish, long story · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dervish, houses, envious 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 dervish	det
2	dervish	dervish	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	as	as	SCONJ	_	7 asked	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 asked	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 asked	aux:pass
7	asked	ask	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 did	advcl
8	without	without	ADP	_	9 delay	case
9	delay	delay	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 asked	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 began	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 began	cc
12	directly	directly	ADV	_	16 together	advmod
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 together	nsubj
14	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 together	cop
15	alone	alone	ADV	_	16 together	advmod
16	together	together	ADV	_	20 began	advmod
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 man	det
18	envious	envious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 man	amod
19	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 began	nsubj
20	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 did	parataxis
21	to	to	PART	_	22 tell	mark
22	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 began	xcomp
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 story	det
24	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 story	amod
25	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 tell	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 edging	punct
27	edging	edge	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	22 tell	ccomp
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 walked	punct
29	as	as	SCONJ	_	31 walked	mark
30	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 walked	nsubj
31	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 began	conj
32	to	to	ADP	_	34 fro	case
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 fro	cc
34	fro	fro	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 walked	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 nearer	punct
36	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	37 nearer	advmod
37	nearer	near	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	34 fro	amod
38	to	to	ADP	_	40 well	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 well	det
40	well	well	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 nearer	obl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 close	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 close	cc
43	when	when	SCONJ	_	47 close	mark
44	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 close	nsubj
45	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 close	cop
46	quite	quite	ADV	_	47 close	advmod
47	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 walked	advcl
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 seized	punct
49	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 seized	nsubj
50	seized	seize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 did	parataxis
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 dervish	det
52	dervish	dervish	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 seized	obj
53	and	and	CCONJ	_	54 dropped	cc
54	dropped	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	50 seized	conj
55	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	54 dropped	obj
56	in	in	ADV	_	54 dropped	advmod
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	past	the dervish			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	ask speech: ask	past · passive		dervish	without delay	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
3	is	past	houses = house		alone, directly, together property	tree rules
4	begin	past	the envious man			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	the envious man not said here	a long story		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent story=Recipient clause=Topic
6	edge	gerund				vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme
7	walk	past	houses = house		to fro result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to fro=Result
8	is	past	houses = house		close property	tree rules
9	seize	past	dervish	the dervish		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dervish=Theme
10	drop	past	dervish not said here	dervish		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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