The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 19, sentence 108

The purveyor, finding him in his room, naturally thought he was a thief, and struck him such a blow that the man fell down and lay motionless on the floor.

Who acts: purveyor, man · What happens: find, think, be, strike, fall down, lay · To what, where: purveyor, room, thief, floor · 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 (purveyor, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 purveyor	det
2	purveyor	purveyor	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 thought	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 finding	punct
4	finding	find	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 purveyor	acl
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 finding	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 room	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 room	nmod:poss
8	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 finding	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 purveyor	punct
10	naturally	naturally	ADV	_	11 thought	advmod
11	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 thief	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 thief	cop
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 thief	det
15	thief	thief	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 thought	ccomp
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 struck	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 struck	cc
18	struck	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 thought	conj
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 struck	obj
20	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	22 blow	det:predet
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 blow	det
22	blow	blow	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 struck	obj
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 fell	mark
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 man	det
25	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 fell	nsubj
26	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 struck	advcl
27	down	down	ADV	_	26 fell	advmod
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 lay	cc
29	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 fell	conj
30	motionless	motionless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 lay	xcomp
31	on	on	ADP	_	33 floor	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 floor	det
33	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 lay	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	find	gerund	the purveyor not said here	purveyor	purveyor's room		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic
2	think speech: other	past	the purveyor			naturally property	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is a	past	purveyor	a thief			tree rules
4	strike	past	the purveyor not said here	purveyor			vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP ADJP»: agent=Agent he=Patient blow=Result
5	fall down	past	the man			down property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	lay	present	the man not said here		the floor	motionless property	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on floor=Destination

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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