The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 16, sentence 87

Scarcely had they finished their ill-omened repast, when the air above us was darkened by two mighty shadows.

Who acts: Scarcely, merchants, two mighty shadows · What happens: have, finish, omen, darken · To what, where: ill omened repast, air

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 (Scarcely, merchants, two mighty shadows), 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	Scarcely	Scarcely	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 finished	nsubj
4	finished	finish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	ccomp
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 repast	nmod:poss
6	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 repast	amod
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 ill	punct
8	omened	omen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 repast	amod
9	repast	repast	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 finished	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 darkened	punct
11	when	when	SCONJ	_	17 darkened	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 air	det
13	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 darkened	nsubj:pass
14	above	above	ADP	_	15 us	case
15	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 air	nmod
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 darkened	aux:pass
17	darkened	darken	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 repast	acl:relcl
18	by	by	ADP	_	21 shadows	case
19	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 shadows	nummod
20	mighty	mighty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 shadows	amod
21	shadows	shadow	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 darkened	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	have	past	Scarcely		tree rules
2	finish	past	merchants = merchant	merchants's ill omened repast	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality repast=Eventuality
3	omen	participle			tree rules
4	darken	past · passive	two mighty shadows	the air above us	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent subject=Patient

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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