The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 30, sentence 95

One day, when he was playing in the streets as usual, a stranger asked him his age, and if he were not the son of Mustapha the tailor.

Who acts: tailor, stranger · What happens: play, ask, not be · To what, where: streets, age, tailor, son

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 (tailor, stranger), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 day	nummod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 asked	obl:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 day	punct
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 playing	advmod
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 playing	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 playing	aux
7	playing	play	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 day	acl
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 streets	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 streets	det
10	streets	street	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 playing	obl
11	as	as	ADP	_	12 usual	case
12	usual	usual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 playing	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 day	punct
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 stranger	det
15	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 asked	nsubj
16	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 asked	iobj
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 age	nmod:poss
19	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 asked	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 son	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 son	cc
22	if	if	SCONJ	_	27 son	mark
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 son	nsubj
24	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 son	cop
25	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 son	advmod
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 son	det
27	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 asked	obl
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 Mustapha	case
29	Mustapha	Mustapha	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 son	nmod
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 tailor	det
31	tailor	tailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 Mustapha	appos
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	play	past · progressive	tailor			the streets		as usual	vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	ask speech: ask	past	a stranger	tailor's age	tailor		day		tree rules
3	not is a a condition, not said to happen	past	tailor	the son				of Mustapha	tree rules

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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