The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 2, sentence 66

He sat down by the others, and was talking, when a third old man arrived.

Who acts: man, third old man · What happens: sit down, talk, arrive

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, third old man), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sat	nsubj
2	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	down	down	ADP	_	2 sat	compound:prt
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 others	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 others	det
6	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 sat	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 talking	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 talking	cc
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 talking	aux
10	talking	talk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 sat	advcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 arrived	punct
12	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	17 arrived	advmod
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 man	det
14	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	16 man	amod
15	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 man	amod
16	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 arrived	nsubj
17	arrived	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 talking	conj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	sit down	past	man	by the others	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by other=Location
2	talk	past · progressive	man not said here		vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	arrive	past	a third old man		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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