The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 33, sentence 30

I was born, Commander of the Faithful, in Bagdad, and was left an orphan while I was yet a very young man, for my parents died within a few days of each other.

Who acts: I, parents · What happens: bear, leave, be, die · To what, where: I, Bagdad, orphan, young man

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, parents), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 born	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 born	aux:pass
3	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 Commander	punct
5	Commander	Commander	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 born	obl
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 Faithful	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Faithful	det
8	Faithful	faithful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 Commander	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 Bagdad	punct
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 Bagdad	case
11	Bagdad	Bagdad	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 born	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 left	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 left	cc
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 left	aux:pass
15	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 born	parataxis
16	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 orphan	det
17	orphan	orphan	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 left	obj
18	while	while	SCONJ	_	25 man	mark
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 man	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 man	cop
21	yet	yet	CCONJ	_	25 man	cc
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 man	det
23	very	very	ADV	_	24 young	advmod
24	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 man	amod
25	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 left	advcl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 died	punct
27	for	for	SCONJ	_	30 died	mark
28	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 parents	nmod:poss
29	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 died	nsubj
30	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 born	conj
31	within	within	ADP	_	34 days	case
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 days	det
33	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 days	amod
34	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 died	obl
35	of	of	ADP	_	36 each	case
36	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	34 days	obl
37	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 each	fixed
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 born	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bear	past · passive		I	Bagdad		Commander of the Faithful obl	vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	leave	past · passive		a orphan				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: orphan=Theme
3	is a	past	I	a young man				tree rules
4	die	past	my parents			day		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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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