The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 19, sentence 99

The hangman did as he was bid, and was tying the cord firmly, when he was stopped by the voice of the Jewish doctor beseeching him to pause, for he had something very important to say.

Who acts: hangman, voice, Jewish doctor, something · What happens: do, bid, tie, stop, beseech, pause · To what, where: hangman, cord, something · 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 (hangman, voice, Jewish doctor, something), 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 hangman	det
2	hangman	hangman	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	as	as	SCONJ	_	7 bid	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 bid	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 bid	aux:pass
7	bid	bid	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 did	advcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 tying	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 tying	cc
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 tying	aux
11	tying	tie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 did	advcl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 cord	det
13	cord	cord	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 tying	obj
14	firmly	firmly	ADV	_	11 tying	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 stopped	punct
16	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	19 stopped	advmod
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 stopped	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 stopped	aux:pass
19	stopped	stop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 did	conj
20	by	by	ADP	_	22 voice	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 voice	det
22	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 stopped	obl
23	of	of	ADP	_	26 doctor	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 doctor	det
25	Jewish	Jewish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 doctor	amod
26	doctor	doctor	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 voice	nmod
27	beseeching	beseech	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	26 doctor	acl
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 beseeching	obj
29	to	to	PART	_	30 pause	mark
30	pause	pause	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 beseeching	advcl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 had	punct
32	for	for	ADP	_	34 had	case
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 had	nsubj
34	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 stopped	conj
35	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	34 had	obj
36	very	very	ADV	_	37 important	advmod
37	important	important	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 something	amod
38	to	to	PART	_	39 say	mark
39	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 important	xcomp
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	past	the hangman			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	bid	past · passive		hangman		tree rules
3	tie	past · progressive	the hangman not said here	the cord	firmly property	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cord=Patient
4	stop	past · passive	the voice of the Jewish doctor	hangman		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality subject=Eventuality
5	beseech	gerund	the Jewish doctor not said here	hangman		tree rules
6	pause	to-infinitive	the Jewish doctor not said here			vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
7	have	past	hangman	something		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Patient
8	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	something not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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