The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 19, sentence 106

When I examined the body I found it was quite dead, and the corpse was that of a hunchback Mussulman.

Who acts: I, body, corpse · What happens: examine, find, be · To what, where: body · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (I, body, corpse), 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	ADV	PronType=Int	3 examined	advmod
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 examined	nsubj
3	examined	examine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 found	advcl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 body	det
5	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 examined	obj
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 found	nsubj
7	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 dead	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 dead	cop
10	quite	quite	ADV	_	11 dead	advmod
11	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 found	ccomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 hunchback	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 hunchback	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 corpse	det
15	corpse	corpse	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 hunchback	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 hunchback	cop
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 hunchback	mark
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 hunchback	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 hunchback	det
20	hunchback	hunchback	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 found	obj
21	Mussulman	Mussulman	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 hunchback	appos
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	examine	past	I	the body		vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent body=Theme
2	find	past	I			vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	body		dead property	tree rules
4	is	past	the corpse		of a hunchback	tree rules

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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