The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 9, sentence 60

He lay quite still, and in a moment he heard a voice saying, "Can you guess whom this man is that we have saved from death?"

Who acts: dervish, you, man, we · What happens: lie, hear, say, guess, be, save · To what, where: voice, death · 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, you, man, we), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 lay	nsubj
2	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	quite	quite	ADV	_	4 still	advmod
4	still	still	ADV	_	2 lay	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 heard	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 heard	cc
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 moment	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 moment	det
9	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 heard	obl
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 heard	nsubj
11	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 lay	conj
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 voice	det
13	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 heard	obj
14	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 heard	advcl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 guess	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 guess	punct
17	Can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 guess	aux
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 guess	nsubj
19	guess	guess	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 saying	ccomp
20	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 guess	obj
21	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	22 man	det
22	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 whom	nsubj
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 whom	cop
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 saved	mark
25	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 saved	nsubj
26	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 saved	aux
27	saved	save	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	19 guess	advcl
28	from	from	ADP	_	29 death	case
29	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 saved	obl
30	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 lay	punct
31	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 lay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	lie	past	dervish			still	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	hear	past	dervish	a voice		moment	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer voice=Stimulus
3	say speech: ask	gerund	dervish not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	guess in a quote	can	you				vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	is a in a quote	present	this man				tree rules
6	save in a quote	present · perfect	we		death		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from death=Source

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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