The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 21, sentence 82

Alnaschar obeyed, and was on his way to a neighbouring city when he fell in with a band of robbers, who stripped him of his clothes and left him naked by the roadside.

Who acts: Alnaschar, robbers · What happens: obey, be, neighbour, fall in, strip, leave · To what, where: way, Alnaschar

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 (Alnaschar, robbers), 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	Alnaschar	Alnaschar	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 obeyed	nsubj
2	obeyed	obey	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 way	punct
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 way	cc
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 way	cop
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 way	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 way	nmod:poss
8	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 obeyed	obl
9	to	to	ADP	_	12 city	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 city	det
11	neighbouring	neighbour	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 city	amod
12	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 way	nmod
13	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	15 fell	advmod
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 fell	nsubj
15	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 obeyed	advcl
16	in	in	ADV	_	15 fell	advmod
17	with	with	ADP	_	19 band	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 band	det
19	band	band	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 fell	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 robbers	case
21	robbers	robber	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 band	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 stripped	punct
23	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 stripped	nsubj
24	stripped	strip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 robbers	acl:relcl
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 stripped	obj
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 clothes	case
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 clothes	nmod:poss
28	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	24 stripped	obl
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 left	cc
30	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 stripped	conj
31	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 left	obj
32	naked	naked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 left	xcomp
33	by	by	ADP	_	35 roadside	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 roadside	det
35	roadside	roadside	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 left	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 obeyed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	obey	past	Alnaschar				vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is	past			Alnaschar's way	to a neighbouring city	tree rules
3	neighbour	gerund					tree rules
4	fall in	past	Alnaschar			with a band of robbers	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	strip	past	robbers	Alnaschar		of Alnaschar's clothes	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent he=Theme of clothes=Initial_Location
6	leave	past	robbers not said here	Alnaschar		by the roadside; naked property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Theme by roadside=Location

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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