The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 16, sentence 77

When the time came all were in their places, and when they had eaten and drunk of all that was set before them Sindbad began his tale.

Who acts: time, adventures, Sindbad · What happens: come, be, eat, drink, set, begin · To what, where: places, that, tale · 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 (time, adventures, Sindbad), 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	_	4 came	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 time	det
3	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 set	advcl
5	all	all	ADV	_	9 places	advmod
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 places	cop
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 places	case
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 places	nmod:poss
9	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 came	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 eaten	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 eaten	cc
12	when	when	SCONJ	_	15 eaten	mark
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 eaten	nsubj
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 eaten	aux
15	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 came	advcl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 drunk	cc
17	drunk	drink	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 eaten	conj
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 all	case
19	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	17 drunk	obl
20	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	22 set	nsubj:pass
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 set	aux:pass
22	set	set	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
23	before	before	ADP	_	24 them	case
24	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 set	obl
25	Sindbad	Sindbad	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 began	nsubj
26	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 set	parataxis
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 tale	nmod:poss
28	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 began	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	22 set	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	the time					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past			adventures's places		all property	tree rules
3	eat	past · perfect	adventures = adventure					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	drink	participle	adventures = adventure not said here				of all	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent of all=Source
5	set	past · passive		that		before adventures = adventure		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme before they=Destination
6	begin	past	Sindbad	Sindbad's tale				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tale=Eventuality
7	tell		Sindbad					nom tale «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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