The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 19, sentence 23

In the kingdom of Kashgar, which is, as everybody knows, situated on the frontiers of Great Tartary, there lived long ago a tailor and his wife who loved each other very much.

Who acts: everybody, wife · What happens: be, situate, live, love · To what, where: kingdom, frontiers, tailor, each

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 (everybody, wife), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 kingdom	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 kingdom	det
3	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 lived	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 Kashgar	case
5	Kashgar	Kashgar	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 kingdom	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 knows	punct
7	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 knows	obj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 knows	cop
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 knows	punct
10	as	as	SCONJ	_	12 knows	mark
11	everybody	everybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	12 knows	nsubj
12	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 Kashgar	acl:relcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 situated	punct
14	situated	situate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 kingdom	acl
15	on	on	ADP	_	17 frontiers	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 frontiers	det
17	frontiers	frontier	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 situated	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 Tartary	case
19	Great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 Tartary	amod
20	Tartary	Tartary	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 frontiers	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 kingdom	punct
22	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	23 lived	expl
23	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
24	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	25 ago	advmod
25	ago	ago	ADV	_	23 lived	advmod
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 tailor	det
27	tailor	tailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 lived	obj
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 wife	cc
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 wife	nmod:poss
30	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 tailor	conj
31	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 loved	nsubj
32	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 wife	acl:relcl
33	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	32 loved	obj
34	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 each	fixed
35	very	very	ADV	_	36 much	advmod
36	much	much	ADV	_	32 loved	advmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	23 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	everybody			know property	tree rules
2	situate	participle		the kingdom of Kashgar not said here	the frontiers of Great Tartary		vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on frontier=Destination
3	live	past		a tailor and Tartary's wife	the kingdom of Kashgar; there	ago property	vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme tailor=Location
4	love	past	Tartary's wife	each			vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer each=Stimulus

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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