The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 16, sentence 37

Then the husband, bidding farewell to all his friends, stretched himself upon another bier, upon which were laid seven little loaves of bread and a pitcher of water, and he also was let down-down-down to the depths of the horrible cavern, and then a stone was laid over the opening, and the melancholy company wended its way back to the city.

Who acts: husband, melancholy company · What happens: bid, stretch, lay, let down, wend back · To what, where: husband, seven little loaves, bier, stone, opening, way

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 (husband, melancholy company), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 stretched	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 husband	det
3	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 stretched	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 bidding	punct
5	bidding	bid	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 husband	acl
6	farewell	farewell	ADV	_	5 bidding	advmod
7	to	to	ADP	_	10 friends	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 friends	det:predet
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 friends	nmod:poss
10	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 bidding	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 husband	punct
12	stretched	stretch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	12 stretched	obj
14	upon	upon	ADP	_	16 bier	case
15	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	16 bier	det
16	bier	bier	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 stretched	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 laid	punct
18	upon	upon	ADP	_	19 which	case
19	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 laid	obl
20	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 laid	aux:pass
21	laid	lay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 bier	acl:relcl
22	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 loaves	nummod
23	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 loaves	amod
24	loaves	loaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 laid	obj
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 bread	case
26	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 loaves	nmod
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 pitcher	cc
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 pitcher	det
29	pitcher	pitcher	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 loaves	conj
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 water	case
31	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 pitcher	nmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 let	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 let	cc
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 let	nsubj:pass
35	also	also	ADV	_	37 let	advmod
36	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 let	aux:pass
37	let	let	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 stretched	conj
38	down	down	ADV	_	37 let	advmod
39	-	-	PUNCT	_	40 down	punct
40	down	down	ADV	_	42 down	advmod
41	-	-	PUNCT	_	40 down	punct
42	down	down	ADV	_	37 let	advmod
43	to	to	ADP	_	45 depths	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 depths	det
45	depths	depth	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 down	obl
46	of	of	ADP	_	49 cavern	case
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 cavern	det
48	horrible	horrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 cavern	amod
49	cavern	cavern	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 depths	nmod
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 laid	punct
51	and	and	CCONJ	_	56 laid	cc
52	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	56 laid	advmod
53	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	54 stone	det
54	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 laid	nsubj:pass
55	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	56 laid	aux:pass
56	laid	lay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	37 let	conj
57	over	over	ADP	_	59 opening	case
58	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	59 opening	det
59	opening	opening	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 laid	obl
60	,	,	PUNCT	_	65 wended	punct
61	and	and	CCONJ	_	65 wended	cc
62	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	64 company	det
63	melancholy	melancholy	NOUN	Number=Sing	64 company	compound
64	company	company	NOUN	Number=Sing	65 wended	nsubj
65	wended	wend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 stretched	conj
66	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	67 way	nmod:poss
67	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	65 wended	obj
68	back	back	ADV	_	65 wended	advmod
69	to	to	ADP	_	71 city	case
70	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	71 city	det
71	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	65 wended	obl
72	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 stretched	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bid	gerund	the husband not said here				to husband's friends; farewell property	tree rules
2	stretch	past	the husband	husband		then	upon another bier	vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent himself=Patient
3	lay	past · passive		seven little loaves of bread and a pitcher of water	another bier			vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: loaf=Theme upon which=Destination
4	let down	past · passive		husband			down property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
5	lay	past · passive		a stone	the opening	then		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme over opening=Destination
6	wend back	past	the melancholy company	company's way			to the city	vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location way=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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