The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 19, sentence 102

Last night a man and a woman who were strangers to me knocked at my door, bringing with them a patient for me to cure.

Who acts: woman, man · What happens: be, knock, bring, cure · To what, where: strangers, me, patient

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, man), 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	Last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 night	amod
2	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 knocked	obl:unmarked
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 man	det
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 knocked	nsubj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 strangers	cc
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 woman	det
7	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 strangers	nsubj
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 strangers	nsubj
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 strangers	cop
10	strangers	stranger	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 man	conj
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 me	case
12	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 strangers	nmod
13	knocked	knock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	at	at	ADP	_	16 door	case
15	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 door	nmod:poss
16	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 knocked	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 bringing	punct
18	bringing	bring	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 knocked	advcl
19	with	with	ADP	_	20 them	case
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 bringing	obl
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 patient	det
22	patient	patient	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 bringing	obj
23	for	for	ADP	_	24 me	case
24	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 patient	nmod
25	to	to	PART	_	26 cure	mark
26	cure	cure	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 patient	acl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 knocked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	a woman	strangers	me			tree rules
2	knock	past	a man and strangers			night	at my door	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at door=Patient
3	bring	gerund	a man and strangers not said here	a patient			with man; for me	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent patient=Theme
4	cure	to-infinitive	a man and strangers not said here	a patient not said here				vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer

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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