The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 16, sentence 36

When the place of interment was reached the corpse was lowered, just as it was, into a deep pit.

Who acts: corpse · What happens: reach, lower, be · To what, where: place, corpse, deep pit

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (corpse), 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	SCONJ	_	7 reached	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 place	det
3	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 reached	nsubj:pass
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 interment	case
5	interment	interment	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 place	nmod
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 reached	aux:pass
7	reached	reach	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 corpse	det
9	corpse	corpse	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 lowered	nsubj:pass
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 lowered	aux:pass
11	lowered	lower	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 reached	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 pit	punct
13	just	just	ADV	_	21 pit	advmod
14	as	as	SCONJ	_	21 pit	mark
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 pit	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 pit	cop
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 pit	punct
18	into	into	ADP	_	21 pit	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 pit	det
20	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 pit	amod
21	pit	pit	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 reached	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 reached	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	reach	past · passive		the place of interment		vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: subject=Theme
2	lower	past · passive		the corpse		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	is	past	corpse		a deep pit	tree rules

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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