The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 21, sentence 6

During this time the old woman was busy over her prayers, and when she had finished she came and prostrated herself twice before my brother, and then rising called down endless blessings on his head.

Who acts: old woman, woman · What happens: be, finish, come, prostrate, call down, pray · To what, where: prayers, woman, endless blessings

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old woman, woman), 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	During	during	ADP	_	3 time	case
2	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 time	det
3	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 busy	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 woman	det
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 woman	amod
6	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 busy	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 busy	cop
8	busy	busy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	over	over	ADP	_	11 prayers	case
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 prayers	nmod:poss
11	prayers	prayer	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 busy	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 finished	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 finished	cc
14	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	17 finished	advmod
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 finished	nsubj
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 finished	aux
17	finished	finish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 busy	conj
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 came	nsubj
19	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 finished	ccomp
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 prostrated	cc
21	prostrated	prostrate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 came	conj
22	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	21 prostrated	obj
23	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	21 prostrated	advmod
24	before	before	ADP	_	26 brother	case
25	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 brother	nmod:poss
26	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 prostrated	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 called	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 called	cc
29	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	31 called	advmod
30	rising	rise	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	31 called	aux:pass
31	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 busy	conj
32	down	down	ADP	_	31 called	compound:prt
33	endless	endless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 blessings	amod
34	blessings	blessing	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 called	xcomp
35	on	on	ADP	_	37 head	case
36	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 head	nmod:poss
37	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 blessings	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 busy	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the old woman		woman's prayers	time	busy property	tree rules
2	finish	past · perfect	woman					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
3	come	past	woman					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	prostrate	past	woman not said here	woman		before my brother	twice property	tree rules
5	call down speech: assert	gerund · passive	the old woman not said here	endless blessings on stranger's head		then		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»
6	pray		woman					nom prayer «act intransitive»: poss=agent

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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