The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 16, sentence 57

Here I lived in darkness and misery until my provisions were exhausted, but just as I was nearly dead from starvation the rock was rolled away overhead and I saw that a bier was being lowered into the cavern, and that the corpse upon it was a man.

Who acts: I, corpse, my · What happens: live, exhaust, be, roll away, see, lower · To what, where: darkness, provisions, rock, starvation, bier, cavern · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (I, corpse, my), 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	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 lived	advmod
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 lived	nsubj
3	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 darkness	case
5	darkness	darkness	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lived	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 misery	cc
7	misery	misery	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 darkness	conj
8	until	until	SCONJ	_	12 exhausted	mark
9	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 provisions	nmod:poss
10	provisions	provision	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 exhausted	nsubj:pass
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 exhausted	aux:pass
12	exhausted	exhaust	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 lived	advcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 dead	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 dead	cc
15	just	just	ADV	_	20 dead	advmod
16	as	as	SCONJ	_	20 dead	mark
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 dead	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 dead	cop
19	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	20 dead	advmod
20	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 lived	parataxis
21	from	from	ADP	_	22 starvation	case
22	starvation	starvation	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 rolled	obl
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 rock	det
24	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 rolled	nsubj:pass
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 rolled	aux:pass
26	rolled	roll	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 dead	conj
27	away	away	ADV	_	26 rolled	advmod
28	overhead	overhead	ADV	_	26 rolled	advmod
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 saw	cc
30	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 saw	nsubj
31	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 lived	conj
32	that	that	SCONJ	_	37 lowered	mark
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 bier	det
34	bier	bier	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 lowered	nsubj:pass
35	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 lowered	aux:pass
36	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	37 lowered	aux:pass
37	lowered	lower	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 saw	ccomp
38	into	into	ADP	_	40 cavern	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 cavern	det
40	cavern	cavern	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 lowered	obl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 man	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 man	cc
43	that	that	SCONJ	_	50 man	mark
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 corpse	det
45	corpse	corpse	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 man	nsubj
46	upon	upon	ADP	_	47 it	case
47	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 corpse	nmod
48	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	50 man	cop
49	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	50 man	det
50	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lived	obl
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	live	past	I		darkness and misery; here		vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in darkness=Location
2	exhaust	past · passive		my provisions			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
3	is	past	I			dead, nearly property	tree rules
4	roll away	past · passive		the rock	starvation	away, overhead property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme from starvation=Trajectory
5	see	past	I				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	lower	past · passive		a bier	the cavern		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme into cavern=Destination
7	is a	past	the corpse upon cavern	a man			tree rules
8	provide		my				nom provision «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

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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