The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 9, sentence 94

One day, when the dervish, who had now become Sultan, was making a royal progress with his court, he perceived the envious man standing in the crowd.

Who acts: dervish, One day, Sultan, envious man · What happens: become, make, perceive, stand · To what, where: royal progress, envious man, crowd

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, One day, Sultan, 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 day	nummod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 making	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 dervish	punct
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 dervish	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 dervish	det
6	dervish	dervish	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 day	appos
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 become	punct
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 become	nsubj
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 become	aux
10	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 become	advmod
11	become	become	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 dervish	acl:relcl
12	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 become	xcomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 day	punct
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 making	aux
15	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 progress	det
17	royal	royal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 progress	amod
18	progress	progress	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 making	obj
19	with	with	ADP	_	21 court	case
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 court	nmod:poss
21	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 progress	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 making	punct
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 perceived	nsubj
24	perceived	perceive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 making	parataxis
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 man	det
26	envious	envious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 man	amod
27	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 perceived	obj
28	standing	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	27 man	acl
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 crowd	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 crowd	det
31	crowd	crowd	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 standing	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 making	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	past · perfect	the dervish			now		vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	make	past · progressive	One day	a royal progress			with Sultan's court	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset progress=Product
3	perceive	past	Sultan	the envious man				vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus
4	stand	gerund	the envious man not said here		the crowd			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in crowd=Location

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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