The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 34, sentence 82

The same thing occurred at supper, and all through the next day, whenever we ate together.

Who acts: same thing · What happens: occur, eat · To what, where: same thing, supper

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 (same thing), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 thing	det
2	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 thing	amod
3	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 ate	nsubj
4	occurred	occur	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 thing	acl
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 supper	case
6	supper	supper	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 occurred	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 ate	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 ate	cc
9	all	all	ADV	_	17 ate	advmod
10	through	through	ADP	_	13 day	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 day	det
12	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 day	amod
13	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 all	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 ate	punct
15	whenever	whenever	ADV	PronType=Rel	17 ate	advmod
16	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 ate	nsubj
17	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	together	together	ADV	_	17 ate	advmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 ate	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	occur	participle		the same thing not said here		supper			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at supper=Location
2	eat	past	the same thing					all, together, whenever property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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