The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 22, sentence 33

"It was during this interval that the little hunchback, half drunk already, presented himself before me, singing and playing on his drum.

Who acts: little hunchback · What happens: be, present, sing, play · To what, where: hunchback, drum

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little hunchback), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg128:1829): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 interval	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 interval	expl
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 interval	cop
4	during	during	ADP	_	6 interval	case
5	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 interval	det
6	interval	interval	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 presented	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 hunchback	det
9	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 hunchback	amod
10	hunchback	hunchback	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 presented	nsubj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 drunk	punct
12	half	half	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	13 drunk	advmod
13	drunk	drunk	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 hunchback	amod
14	already	already	ADV	_	13 drunk	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 drunk	punct
16	presented	present	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 interval	acl:relcl
17	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	16 presented	obj
18	before	before	ADP	_	19 me	case
19	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 presented	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 singing	punct
21	singing	sing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 presented	advcl
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 playing	cc
23	playing	play	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 singing	conj
24	on	on	ADP	_	26 drum	case
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 drum	nmod:poss
26	drum	drum	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 playing	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 interval	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	is in a quote	past				during this interval	tree rules
2	present in a quote	past	the little hunchback	hunchback		before barber	vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme
3	sing speech: express in a quote	gerund	the little hunchback not said here				vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	play in a quote	gerund	the little hunchback not said here		hunchback's drum		vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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