The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 9, sentence 75

He was soon joined here by the black cat of which the voice had spoken, who came as usual to say good-morning to his master.

Who acts: black cat · What happens: join, speak, come, say · To what, where: dervish, voice, master · 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 (black cat), 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	4 joined	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 joined	aux:pass
3	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 joined	advmod
4	joined	join	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 joined	advmod
6	by	by	ADP	_	9 cat	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 cat	det
8	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 cat	amod
9	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 joined	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 which	case
11	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 spoken	obl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 voice	det
13	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 spoken	nsubj:pass
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 spoken	aux
15	spoken	speak	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 cat	acl:relcl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 came	punct
17	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 came	nsubj
18	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 cat	conj
19	as	as	ADV	_	20 usual	advmod
20	usual	usual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 came	xcomp
21	to	to	PART	_	22 say	mark
22	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 usual	xcomp
23	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 morning	amod
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 good	punct
25	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 say	obj
26	to	to	ADP	_	28 master	case
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 master	nmod:poss
28	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 say	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 joined	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	join	past · passive	the black cat	dervish		here		soon property	vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient
2	speak speech: other	past · perfect · passive		the voice				of the black cat	tree rules
3	come	past	the black cat					usual property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	the black cat not said here		dervish's master		morning		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to master=Recipient

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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