The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 13, sentence 4

In the times of the Caliph Haroun-al-Raschid there lived in Bagdad a poor porter named Hindbad, who on a very hot day was sent to carry a heavy load from one end of the city to the other.

What happens: live, name, send, carry · To what, where: poor porter, Bagdad, Hindbad, heavy load, one end

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 times	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 times	det
3	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 lived	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 Caliph	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Caliph	det
6	Caliph	Caliph	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 times	nmod
7	Haroun	Haroun	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Caliph	flat
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 al	punct
9	al	Al	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Caliph	flat
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 Raschid	punct
11	Raschid	Raschid	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 al	flat
12	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 lived	advmod
13	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	in	in	ADP	_	15 Bagdad	case
15	Bagdad	Bagdad	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 lived	obl
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 porter	det
17	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 porter	amod
18	porter	porter	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 lived	obj
19	named	name	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 porter	acl
20	Hindbad	Hindbad	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 named	xcomp
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 sent	punct
22	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 sent	nsubj
23	on	on	ADP	_	27 day	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 day	det
25	very	very	ADV	_	26 hot	advmod
26	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 day	amod
27	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 sent	obl
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 sent	aux:pass
29	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 Hindbad	acl:relcl
30	to	to	PART	_	31 carry	mark
31	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 sent	advcl
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 load	det
33	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 load	amod
34	load	load	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 carry	obj
35	from	from	ADP	_	37 end	case
36	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	37 end	nummod
37	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 carry	obl
38	of	of	ADP	_	40 city	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 city	det
40	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 end	nmod
41	to	to	ADP	_	43 other	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 other	det
43	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 carry	obl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past	a poor porter	Bagdad; there	time		vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme porter=Location
2	name	participle	a poor porter not said here				vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	send	past · passive	Hindbad		day		vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
4	carry	to-infinitive	a heavy load		from one end of the city	to the other	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent load=Theme from end=Initial_Location to other=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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