The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 26, sentence 88

But the old man was at his last gasp, and had barely murmured his confession of faith when he expired.

Who acts: old man, man · What happens: be, murmur, expire, confess · To what, where: last gasp, confession, faith

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old man, man), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	9 gasp	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 man	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 man	amod
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 gasp	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 gasp	cop
6	at	at	ADP	_	9 gasp	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 gasp	nmod:poss
8	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 gasp	amod
9	gasp	gasp	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 murmured	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 murmured	cc
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 murmured	aux
13	barely	barely	ADV	_	14 murmured	advmod
14	murmured	murmur	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 gasp	conj
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 confession	nmod:poss
16	confession	confession	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 murmured	obj
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 faith	case
18	faith	faith	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 confession	nmod
19	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	21 expired	advmod
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 expired	nsubj
21	expired	expire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 murmured	advcl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 gasp	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the old man		man's last gasp		tree rules
2	murmur speech: other	past · perfect	the old man not said here	man's confession of faith		barely property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent confession=Topic
3	expire	past	man				vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient
4	confess		man	faith			nom confession «communication transitive»: poss=agent 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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