The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 19, sentence 83

All this brought the merchant to his senses, but the more he thought of it the less he could understand how the hunchback could have died merely from the blows he had received.

Who acts: this, Hunchback · What happens: bring, think, understand, die, receive · To what, where: merchant, senses, blows · 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 (this, Hunchback), 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 this	det:predet
2	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 brought	nsubj
3	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 merchant	det
5	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 brought	obj
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 senses	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 senses	nmod:poss
8	senses	sens	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 brought	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 thought	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 thought	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 more	det
12	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	14 thought	advmod
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 thought	nsubj
14	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 brought	conj
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 it	case
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 thought	obl
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 less	det
18	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	21 understand	advmod
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 understand	nsubj
20	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 understand	aux
21	understand	understand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 thought	ccomp
22	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	27 died	advmod
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 hunchback	det
24	hunchback	hunchback	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 died	nsubj
25	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 died	aux
26	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	27 died	aux
27	died	die	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	21 understand	ccomp
28	merely	merely	ADV	_	27 died	advmod
29	from	from	ADP	_	31 blows	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 blows	det
31	blows	blows	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 died	obl
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 received	nsubj
33	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 received	aux
34	received	receive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	31 blows	acl:relcl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 brought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	bring	past	this	the merchant	Hunchback's senses		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent merchant=Theme to sens=Destination
2	think speech: other	past	Hunchback			of grasp	vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	understand	could	Hunchback			less property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	die	could · perfect	the hunchback		the blows	merely property	vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient from blows=Causer
5	receive	past · perfect	Hunchback	the blows not said here			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blows=Theme

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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