The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 9, sentence 59

The dervish himself could see nothing, but he took for granted that something strange had happened, or he must certainly have been dashed against the side of the well and been killed.

Who acts: dervish, something · What happens: see, take, happen, dash, kill · To what, where: nothing, dervish

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, something), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg128:816): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

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	5 see	nsubj
3	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	2 dervish	nmod:unmarked
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 see	aux
5	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 see	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 took	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 took	cc
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 took	nsubj
10	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 see	conj
11	for	for	ADP	_	12 granted	case
12	granted	granted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 took	obl
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 happened	mark
14	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	17 happened	nsubj
15	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 something	amod
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 happened	aux
17	happened	happen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 took	ccomp
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 dashed	punct
19	or	or	CCONJ	_	25 dashed	cc
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 dashed	nsubj:pass
21	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 dashed	aux
22	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	25 dashed	advmod
23	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	25 dashed	aux
24	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	25 dashed	aux:pass
25	dashed	dash	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 took	conj
26	against	against	ADP	_	28 side	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 side	det
28	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 dashed	obl
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 well	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 well	det
31	well	well	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 side	nmod
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 killed	cc
33	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	34 killed	aux:pass
34	killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 dashed	conj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 see	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	see	could	the dervish dervish	nothing		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus
2	take	past	dervish		for granted	vn require-103 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Precondition
3	happen	past · perfect	something			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	dash	must · perfect · passive		dervish	against the side of the well; certainly property	vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP PP»: subject=Instrument against side=Patient
5	kill	participle · passive				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»

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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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