The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 30, sentence 64

Such a severe bastinado was first administered to him, that he was left more dead than alive; then Saouy threw him into the darkest and deepest dungeon, and fed him only on bread and water.

Who acts: Saouy · What happens: administer, leave, throw, feed · To what, where: severe bastinado, king, darkest dungeon, bread

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Saouy), 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	Such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	4 bastinado	det:predet
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 bastinado	det
3	severe	severe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 bastinado	amod
4	bastinado	bastinado	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 administered	nsubj:pass
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 administered	aux:pass
6	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	7 administered	advmod
7	administered	administer	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 him	case
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 administered	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 left	punct
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 left	mark
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 left	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 left	aux:pass
14	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 administered	parataxis
15	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	16 dead	amod
16	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 left	xcomp
17	than	than	ADP	_	18 alive	case
18	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 left	obl
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 threw	punct
20	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	22 threw	advmod
21	Saouy	Saouy	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 threw	nsubj
22	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 administered	parataxis
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 threw	obj
24	into	into	ADP	_	29 dungeon	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 dungeon	det
26	darkest	dark	ADJ	Degree=Sup	29 dungeon	amod
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 deepest	cc
28	deepest	deep	ADJ	Degree=Sup	26 darkest	conj
29	dungeon	dungeon	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 threw	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 fed	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 fed	cc
32	fed	feed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 threw	conj
33	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 fed	obj
34	only	only	ADV	_	36 bread	advmod
35	on	on	ADP	_	36 bread	case
36	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 fed	obl
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 water	cc
38	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 bread	conj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 administered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	administer	past · passive		such severe bastinado	king			first property	vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to he=Recipient
2	leave	past · passive		king				than alive; dead property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	throw	past	Saouy	king			then	into the darkest dungeon result	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer he=Theme into dungeon=Result
4	feed	past	Saouy not said here		king	bread and water			vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient

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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