The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 19, sentence 74

In his haste he jostled against the hunchback, who fell heavily upon him, and the merchant, thinking he was being attacked by a thief, knocked him down with one blow of his fist.

Who acts: revenge, hunchback, merchant, thief, fist · What happens: jostle, fall, think, attack, knock down, blow · To what, where: haste, revenge · 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 (revenge, hunchback, merchant, thief), 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 haste	case
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 haste	nmod:poss
3	haste	haste	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 jostled	obl
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 jostled	nsubj
5	jostled	jostle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	against	against	ADP	_	8 hunchback	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 hunchback	det
8	hunchback	hunchback	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 jostled	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 fell	punct
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 fell	nsubj
11	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 hunchback	acl:relcl
12	heavily	heavily	ADV	_	11 fell	advmod
13	upon	upon	ADP	_	14 him	case
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 fell	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 knocked	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 knocked	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 merchant	det
18	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 knocked	nsubj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 thinking	punct
20	thinking	think	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 merchant	acl
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 attacked	nsubj:pass
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 attacked	aux:pass
23	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 attacked	aux:pass
24	attacked	attack	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 thinking	ccomp
25	by	by	ADP	_	27 thief	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 thief	det
27	thief	thief	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 attacked	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 merchant	punct
29	knocked	knock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 jostled	conj
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 knocked	obj
31	down	down	ADP	_	29 knocked	compound:prt
32	with	with	ADP	_	34 blow	case
33	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	34 blow	nummod
34	blow	blow	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 knocked	obl
35	of	of	ADP	_	37 fist	case
36	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 fist	nmod:poss
37	fist	fist	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 blow	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 jostled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	jostle	past	revenge		revenge's haste	against the hunchback	vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent against hunchback=Theme
2	fall	past	the hunchback			upon revenge; heavily property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon he=Location
3	think speech: other	gerund	the merchant not said here				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	attack	past · passive	a thief	revenge			vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient
5	knock down	past	the merchant	revenge		with one blow of revenge's fist	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent he=Patient with blow=Instrument
6	blow		revenge's fist				nom blow «act intransitive»: of=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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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