The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 32, sentence 38

He came to the banks of a river, and knelt down to say his prayers before throwing himself in.

Who acts: Aladdin · What happens: come, kneel down, say, throw in, pray · To what, where: banks, prayers, Aladdin · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Aladdin), 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 came	nsubj
2	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 banks	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 banks	det
5	banks	bank	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 came	obl
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 river	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 river	det
8	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 banks	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 knelt	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 knelt	cc
11	knelt	kneel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 came	conj
12	down	down	ADV	_	11 knelt	advmod
13	to	to	PART	_	14 say	mark
14	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 knelt	xcomp
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 prayers	nmod:poss
16	prayers	prayer	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 say	obj
17	before	before	SCONJ	_	18 throwing	mark
18	throwing	throw	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 say	advcl
19	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	18 throwing	obj
20	in	in	ADP	_	18 throwing	compound:prt
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	Aladdin		the banks of a river		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bank=Initial_Location
2	kneel down	past	Aladdin not said here			down property	tree rules
3	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	Aladdin not said here	Aladdin's prayers			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent prayer=Topic
4	throw in	gerund	Aladdin not said here	Aladdin			vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme
5	pray		Aladdin				nom prayer «act intransitive»: poss=agent

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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