The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 1, sentence 55

When Wali Dâd from a distance saw the cloud of dust which the caravan made, and the glitter of its appointments, he said to himself: “By Allah! here’s a grand crowd coming!

Who acts: Wali, cloud, glitter, grand crowd · What happens: see, caravan, make, say, come, cloud · To what, where: cloud, caravan, Wali, dust · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wali, cloud, glitter, grand crowd), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 saw	advmod
2	Wali	Wali	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 saw	nsubj
3	Dâd	Dâd	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Wali	flat
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 distance	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 distance	det
6	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Wali	nmod
7	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 said	advcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 cloud	det
9	cloud	cloud	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 saw	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 dust	case
11	dust	dust	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cloud	nmod
12	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 caravan	nsubj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 caravan	det
14	caravan	caravan	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cloud	nmod
15	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 caravan	acl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 said	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 said	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 glitter	det
19	glitter	glitter	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 said	nsubj
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 appointments	case
21	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 appointments	nmod:poss
22	appointments	appointment	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 glitter	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 glitter	punct
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 said	nsubj
25	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
26	to	to	ADP	_	27 himself	case
27	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	25 said	obl
28	:	:	PUNCT	_	31 Allah	punct
29	“	"	PUNCT	_	31 Allah	punct
30	By	by	ADP	_	31 Allah	case
31	Allah	Allah	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 ’s	nsubj
32	!	!	PUNCT	_	31 Allah	punct
33	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	31 Allah	advmod
34	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 said	ccomp
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 crowd	det
36	grand	grand	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 crowd	amod
37	crowd	crowd	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 ’s	obj
38	coming	come	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	37 crowd	acl
39	!	!	PUNCT	_	25 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	see	past	Wali from a distance	the cloud of dust		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cloud=Stimulus
2	caravan		the cloud of dust			tree rules
3	make	participle		the caravan not said here		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
4	say speech: express	past	the glitter of glitter's appointments		Wali	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient
5	come in a quote	gerund	a grand crowd not said here			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	cloud			dust		nom cloud «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient

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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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