The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 9, sentence 73

The dervishes, who could not imagine what had become of him, were enchanted at his reappearance.

Who acts: dervishes, dervish · What happens: not imagine, become, enchant, reappear · To what, where: dervishes, reappearance

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 (dervishes, dervish), 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 dervishes	det
2	dervishes	dervish	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 enchanted	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 imagine	punct
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 imagine	nsubj
5	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 imagine	aux
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 imagine	advmod
7	imagine	imagine	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 dervishes	parataxis
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	10 become	nsubj
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 become	aux
10	become	become	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 imagine	ccomp
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 him	case
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 become	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 dervishes	punct
14	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 enchanted	aux:pass
15	enchanted	enchant	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
16	at	at	ADP	_	18 reappearance	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 reappearance	nmod:poss
18	reappearance	reappearance	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 enchanted	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 enchanted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not imagine	could	the dervishes				vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	become	past · perfect				of dervish	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
3	enchant	past · passive		the dervishes	dervish's reappearance		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
4	reappear		dervish				nom reappearance «event intransitive»: poss=agent

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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