The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 19, sentence 63

The corpse fell on the floor, but the man only redoubled his blows, till at length it occurred to him it was odd that the thief should lie so still and make no resistance.

Who acts: corpse, man, thief, Scarcely · What happens: fall, redouble, occur, be, lie, make · To what, where: floor, blows, corpse, Scarcely, length, resistance

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 (corpse, man, thief, Scarcely), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg128:1600): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 corpse	det
2	corpse	corpse	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fell	nsubj
3	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 floor	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 floor	det
6	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fell	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 redoubled	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 redoubled	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 man	det
10	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 redoubled	nsubj
11	only	only	ADV	_	12 redoubled	advmod
12	redoubled	redouble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 fell	conj
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 blows	nmod:poss
14	blows	blow	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 redoubled	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 occurred	punct
16	till	till	SCONJ	_	20 occurred	mark
17	at	at	ADP	_	18 length	case
18	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 occurred	obl
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 occurred	expl
20	occurred	occur	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 redoubled	advcl
21	to	to	ADP	_	22 him	case
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 occurred	obl
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 odd	expl
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 odd	cop
25	odd	odd	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 occurred	csubj
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 lie	mark
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 thief	det
28	thief	thief	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 lie	nsubj
29	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 lie	aux
30	lie	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 odd	csubj
31	so	so	ADV	_	32 still	advmod
32	still	still	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 lie	xcomp
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 make	cc
34	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 lie	conj
35	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	36 resistance	det
36	resistance	resistance	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 make	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 fell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	fall	past	the corpse			the floor		vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on floor=Location
2	redouble	past	the man	Scarcely's blows				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent blow=Patient
3	occur	past	the man not said here	corpse	Scarcely	length		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at length=Location
4	is	past					odd property	tree rules
5	lie	should	the thief				still property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	make	infinitive	the thief not said here	no resistance				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset resistance=Product
7	blow		Scarcely					nom blow «act intransitive»: poss=agent

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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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