The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 20, sentence 21

At the moment that he was about to suffer punishment, first one man arrived, and then another, each accusing themselves of the murder, and this went on for a long time, and at the present instant the chief of police is engaged in questioning a man who declares that he alone is the true assassin."

Who acts: man, one man, each, this · What happens: be, suffer, arrive, accuse, go on, instant · To what, where: punishment, gallows, present, chief, man, true assassin · 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 (man, one man, each, this), 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	At	at	ADP	_	3 moment	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 moment	det
3	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 about	obl
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 about	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 about	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 about	cop
7	about	about	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 suffer	mark
9	suffer	suffer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 about	xcomp
10	punishment	punishment	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 suffer	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 arrived	punct
12	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	15 arrived	advmod
13	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 man	nummod
14	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 arrived	nsubj
15	arrived	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 about	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 another	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 another	cc
18	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	19 another	advmod
19	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	15 arrived	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 accusing	punct
21	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	22 accusing	nsubj
22	accusing	accuse	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 arrived	advcl
23	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	22 accusing	obj
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 murder	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 murder	det
26	murder	murder	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 accusing	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 went	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 went	cc
29	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	30 went	nsubj
30	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 about	parataxis
31	on	on	ADP	_	30 went	compound:prt
32	for	for	ADP	_	35 time	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 time	det
34	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 time	amod
35	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 went	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 instant	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 instant	cc
38	at	at	ADP	_	40 present	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 present	det
40	present	present	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 instant	obl
41	instant	instant	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 went	conj
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 chief	det
43	chief	chief	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 engaged	nsubj:pass
44	of	of	ADP	_	45 police	case
45	police	police	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 chief	nmod
46	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	47 engaged	aux:pass
47	engaged	engage	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	41 instant	ccomp
48	in	in	SCONJ	_	49 questioning	mark
49	questioning	question	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	47 engaged	advcl
50	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	51 man	det
51	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 questioning	obj
52	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	53 declares	nsubj
53	declares	declare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	51 man	acl:relcl
54	that	that	SCONJ	_	60 assassin	mark
55	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	60 assassin	nsubj
56	alone	alone	ADV	_	55 he	advmod
57	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	60 assassin	cop
58	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	60 assassin	det
59	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	60 assassin	amod
60	assassin	assassin	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 declares	ccomp
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 about	punct
62	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 about	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	man				moment	about property	tree rules
2	suffer	to-infinitive	man not said here	punishment					vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer punishment=Stimulus
3	arrive	past	one man					first property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	accuse	gerund	each	gallows				of the murder	vn suspect-81 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme of murder=Attribute
5	go on	past	this				time		vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	instant	past	this not said here			the present			tree rules
7	engage	present · passive		the chief of police					vn amalgamate-22.2-3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
8	question speech: other	gerund			a man				vn interrogate-37.1.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Recipient
9	declare speech: other	present	a man						vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
10	is a	present	man	the true assassin					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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