The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 11, sentence 92

When at last he revived, they left him to dig a grave, and then laying the young man's body in it, they threw in the earth.

Who acts: instant, trees · What happens: revive, leave, dig, lay, throw · To what, where: last, instant, grave, body, earth

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (instant, trees), 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	5 revived	advmod
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 last	case
3	last	last	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 revived	obl
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 revived	nsubj
5	revived	revive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 left	advcl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 revived	punct
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 left	nsubj
8	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 left	obj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 dig	mark
11	dig	dig	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 left	advcl
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 grave	det
13	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 dig	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 laying	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 laying	cc
16	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 laying	advmod
17	laying	lay	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 left	advcl
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 man	det
19	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 man	amod
20	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 body	nmod:poss
21	's	's	PART	_	20 man	case
22	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 laying	obj
23	in	in	ADP	_	24 it	case
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 laying	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 threw	punct
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 threw	nsubj
27	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 left	conj
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 earth	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 earth	det
30	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 threw	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 left	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	revive	past	instant		last		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	leave	past	trees = tree	instant			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
3	dig	to-infinitive	trees = tree not said here	a grave			vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent grave=Theme
4	lay	gerund	trees = tree not said here	the young man's body	body	then	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent body=Theme in it=Destination
5	throw	past	trees = tree		the earth		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent in earth=Destination

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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