The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 20, sentence 9

At supper I helped him to a slice of fish, but in eating it a bone stuck in his throat, and in spite of all we could do he died in a few minutes.

Who acts: I, we, hunchback · What happens: help, eat, stick, do, die, slice · To what, where: hunchback, supper, fish, throat, spite

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 (I, we, hunchback), 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	_	2 supper	case
2	supper	supper	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 helped	obl
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 helped	nsubj
4	helped	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 helped	obj
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 slice	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 slice	det
8	slice	slice	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 helped	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 fish	case
10	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 slice	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 stuck	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 stuck	cc
13	in	in	SCONJ	_	14 eating	mark
14	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 stuck	advcl
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 eating	obj
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 bone	det
17	bone	bone	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 eating	obj
18	stuck	stick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 helped	conj
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 throat	case
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 throat	nmod:poss
21	throat	throat	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 stuck	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 do	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 do	cc
24	in	in	ADP	_	25 spite	case
25	spite	spite	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 do	obl
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 all	case
27	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	25 spite	nmod
28	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 do	nsubj
29	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 do	aux
30	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 helped	conj
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 died	nsubj
32	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 do	ccomp
33	in	in	ADP	_	36 minutes	case
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 minutes	det
35	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 minutes	amod
36	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 died	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 helped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help	past	I		hunchback	supper		to a slice of fish	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary
2	eat	gerund		fish					tree rules
3	stick	participle	I not said here			hunchback's throat			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in throat=Destination
4	do	could	we			spite of all			tree rules
5	die	past	hunchback				minute		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
6	slice			fish					nom slice «possession transitive»: of=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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