The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 10, sentence 15

One after another the merchants set down a few lines upon the roll, and when they had all finished, I came forward, and snatched the paper from the man who held it.

Who acts: One, merchants, I, man · What happens: set down, finish, come forward, snatch, hold · To what, where: few lines, roll, paper

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (One, merchants, I, 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	6 set	nsubj
2	after	after	ADP	_	3 another	case
3	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	1 One	nmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 merchants	det
5	merchants	merchant	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 set	nsubj
6	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	down	down	ADP	_	6 set	compound:prt
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 lines	det
9	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 lines	amod
10	lines	line	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 set	obj
11	upon	upon	ADP	_	13 roll	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 roll	det
13	roll	roll	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 lines	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 finished	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 finished	cc
16	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	20 finished	advmod
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 finished	nsubj
18	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 finished	aux
19	all	all	ADV	_	20 finished	advmod
20	finished	finish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 set	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 came	punct
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 came	nsubj
23	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 set	parataxis
24	forward	forward	ADV	_	23 came	advmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 snatched	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 snatched	cc
27	snatched	snatch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 came	conj
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 paper	det
29	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 snatched	obj
30	from	from	ADP	_	32 man	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 man	det
32	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 snatched	obl
33	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 held	nsubj
34	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 man	acl:relcl
35	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 held	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 set	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	set down	past	One after another	a few lines	the roll		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent line=Theme upon roll=Destination
2	finish	past · perfect	merchants = merchant			all property	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	come forward	past	I			forward property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	snatch	past	I not said here	the paper		from the man	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent paper=Theme from man=Source
5	hold	past	the man	paper			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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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