The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 16, sentence 86

Then lighting a fire upon the ground they hacked morsels from the bird, and proceeded to roast them while I stood by aghast.

Who acts: merchants, I · What happens: light, hack, proceed, roast, stand · To what, where: fire, morsels, merchants

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 (merchants, I), 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	2 lighting	advmod
2	lighting	light	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 hacked	advcl
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 fire	det
4	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lighting	obj
5	upon	upon	ADP	_	7 ground	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 ground	det
7	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hacked	obl
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 hacked	nsubj
9	hacked	hack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	morsels	morsel	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 hacked	obj
11	from	from	ADP	_	13 bird	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 bird	det
13	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hacked	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 proceeded	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 proceeded	cc
16	proceeded	proceed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 hacked	conj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 roast	mark
18	roast	roast	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 proceeded	xcomp
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 roast	obj
20	while	while	SCONJ	_	22 stood	mark
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 stood	nsubj
22	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 roast	advcl
23	by	by	ADP	_	24 aghast	case
24	aghast	aghast	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 stood	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 hacked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	light	gerund	merchants = merchant not said here	a fire	then		vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Product
2	hack	past	merchants = merchant	morsels		upon the ground; from the bird	vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.product PP.material»: agent=Agent morsel=Product from bird=Material
3	proceed	past	merchants = merchant not said here				vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	roast	to-infinitive	merchants = merchant not said here	merchants = merchant			vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient
5	stand	past	I			by aghast	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by aghast=Location

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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