The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 19, sentence 84

The merchant was still pondering on this subject when he was summoned before the chief of police and questioned about his crime, which he could not deny.

Who acts: merchant, Hunchback · What happens: ponder, summon, question, not deny, incriminate · To what, where: Hunchback, crime

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 (merchant, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 merchant	det
2	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pondering	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 pondering	aux
4	still	still	ADV	_	5 pondering	advmod
5	pondering	ponder	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 subject	case
7	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 subject	det
8	subject	subject	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pondering	obl
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 summoned	advmod
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 summoned	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 summoned	aux:pass
12	summoned	summon	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 pondering	advcl
13	before	before	ADP	_	15 chief	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 chief	det
15	chief	chief	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 summoned	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 police	case
17	police	police	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 chief	nmod
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 questioned	cc
19	questioned	question	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 summoned	conj
20	about	about	ADP	_	22 crime	case
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 crime	nmod:poss
22	crime	crime	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 questioned	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 deny	punct
24	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 deny	obj
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 deny	nsubj
26	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 deny	aux
27	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	28 deny	advmod
28	deny	deny	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 crime	acl:relcl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 pondering	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	ponder	past · progressive	the merchant		still	on this subject	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent on subject=Topic
2	summon	past · passive		Hunchback	before the chief of police		vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Recipient
3	question speech: other	past				about Hunchback's crime	vn interrogate-37.1.3 «NP V NP PP.topic»: agent=Agent about crime=Topic
4	not deny	could	Hunchback	Hunchback's crime			vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent which=Eventuality
5	incriminate		Hunchback				nom crime «act transitive»: 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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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