The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 3, sentence 57

Sire, there was once upon a time a fisherman so old and so poor that he could scarcely manage to support his wife and three children.

Who acts: fisherman, sire · What happens: be, manage, support · To what, where: wife

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fisherman, sire), 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	Sire	sire	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 was	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Sire	punct
3	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	4 was	expl
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 old	cop
5	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	4 was	advmod
6	upon	upon	ADP	_	8 time	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 time	det
8	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 old	obl
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 fisherman	det
10	fisherman	fisherman	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 old	nsubj
11	so	so	ADV	_	12 old	advmod
12	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 poor	cc
14	so	so	ADV	_	15 poor	advmod
15	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 old	conj
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 manage	mark
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 manage	nsubj
18	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 manage	aux
19	scarcely	scarcely	ADV	_	20 manage	advmod
20	manage	manage	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 poor	advcl
21	to	to	PART	_	22 support	mark
22	support	support	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 manage	xcomp
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 wife	nmod:poss
24	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 support	obj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 children	cc
26	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 children	nummod
27	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 wife	conj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 old	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	a fisherman		time	old property	tree rules
2	be		a fisherman not said here				tree rules
3	manage	could	sire			scarcely property	vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	support	to-infinitive	sire not said here	sire's wife and three children			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wife=Stimulus

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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