The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 20, sentence 13

In descending the stairs the doctor accidentally knocked over the corpse, and finding him dead believed that he himself was the murderer.

Who acts: finding, man · What happens: descend, knock, find, believe, be · To what, where: stairs, corpse, man, murderer · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (finding, 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	In	in	SCONJ	_	2 descending	mark
2	descending	descend	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 knocked	advcl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 stairs	det
4	stairs	stair	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 descending	obj
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 doctor	det
6	doctor	doctor	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 descending	obj
7	accidentally	accidentally	ADV	_	8 knocked	advmod
8	knocked	knock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	over	over	ADP	_	11 corpse	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 corpse	det
11	corpse	corpse	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 knocked	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 believed	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 believed	cc
14	finding	find	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 believed	csubj
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 finding	obj
16	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 finding	xcomp
17	believed	believe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 knocked	conj
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 murderer	mark
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 murderer	nsubj
20	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	19 he	nmod:unmarked
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 murderer	cop
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 murderer	det
23	murderer	murderer	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 believed	advcl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 knocked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	descend	gerund		the stairs			tree rules
2	knock	past			the corpse	accidentally property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over corpse=Location
3	find	gerund		man		dead property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic
4	believe	past	finding				vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
5	is a	past	man	the murderer			tree rules

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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