The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 20, sentence 86

They told her that he was a poor man who had laid out all his money on this basket of glass, which was now broken.

Who acts: others, man, poor man · What happens: tell, be, lay out, break · To what, where: lady, poor man, basket, glass · 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 (others, man, poor 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 told	nsubj
2	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 told	iobj
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 man	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 man	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 man	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 man	det
8	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 man	amod
9	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 told	ccomp
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 laid	nsubj
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 laid	aux
12	laid	lay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 man	acl:relcl
13	out	out	ADP	_	12 laid	compound:prt
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 money	det:predet
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 money	nmod:poss
16	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 laid	parataxis
17	on	on	ADP	_	19 basket	case
18	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	19 basket	det
19	basket	basket	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 laid	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 glass	case
21	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 basket	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 broken	punct
23	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 broken	nsubj:pass
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 broken	aux:pass
25	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	26 broken	advmod
26	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 glass	acl:relcl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	others = other		lady			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
2	is a	past	man	a poor man				tree rules
3	lay out	past · perfect	a poor man			this basket of glass		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on basket=Destination
4	break	past · passive		glass			now	vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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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