The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 22, sentence 37

He placed it in the chamber of the purveyor, and the purveyor propped it up in the street, where it was thought to have been killed by the merchant.

Who acts: bone, purveyor, merchant · What happens: place, prop up, think, kill · To what, where: body, chamber, street

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 (bone, purveyor, merchant), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 placed	nsubj
2	placed	place	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 placed	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 chamber	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 chamber	det
6	chamber	chamber	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 placed	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 purveyor	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 purveyor	det
9	purveyor	purveyor	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 chamber	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 propped	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 propped	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 purveyor	det
13	purveyor	purveyor	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 propped	nsubj
14	propped	prop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 placed	parataxis
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 propped	obj
16	up	up	ADP	_	14 propped	compound:prt
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 street	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 street	det
19	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 propped	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 thought	punct
21	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	24 thought	advmod
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 thought	nsubj:pass
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 thought	aux:pass
24	thought	think	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 propped	conj
25	to	to	PART	_	28 killed	mark
26	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	28 killed	aux
27	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	28 killed	aux:pass
28	killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 thought	xcomp
29	by	by	ADP	_	31 merchant	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 merchant	det
31	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 killed	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 placed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	place	past	bone	body	the chamber of the purveyor	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in chamber=Destination
2	prop up	past	the purveyor	body	the street	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in street=Destination
3	think speech: other	past · passive		body		vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute clause=Theme
4	kill	to-infinitive · perfect · passive	the merchant			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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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