The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 34, sentence 36

From a rich man I had in one moment become a beggar; and up to this time I have lived solely on the alms that have been bestowed on me.

Who acts: I · What happens: have, become, live, bestow · To what, where: beggar, alms

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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	From	from	ADP	_	4 man	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 man	det
3	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 man	amod
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 had	obl
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 had	nsubj
6	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 moment	case
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 moment	nummod
9	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 become	obl
10	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 had	xcomp
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 beggar	det
12	beggar	beggar	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 become	xcomp
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 lived	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 lived	cc
15	up	up	ADV	_	21 lived	advmod
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 time	case
17	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	18 time	det
18	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 lived	obl
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 lived	nsubj
20	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 lived	aux
21	lived	live	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 had	conj
22	solely	solely	ADV	_	21 lived	advmod
23	on	on	ADP	_	25 alms	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 alms	det
25	alms	alm	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 lived	obl
26	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 bestowed	obj
27	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 bestowed	aux
28	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	29 bestowed	aux:pass
29	bestowed	bestow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 alms	acl:relcl
30	on	on	ADP	_	31 me	case
31	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 bestowed	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	I				from a rich man	tree rules
2	become	infinitive	I not said here	a beggar		moment		vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
3	live	present · perfect	I		the alms	time	solely property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on alm=Location
4	bestow	present · perfect · passive		the alms			on me	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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