The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 34, sentence 94

They passed by me without noticing me, began to dig up a corpse which had been buried that day, and then sat down on the edge of the grave, to enjoy their frightful repast, talking quietly and cheerfully all the while, though I was too far off to hear what they said.

Who acts: wife, I · What happens: pass, notice, begin, dig up, bury, sit down · To what, where: me, corpse, edge, frightful repast · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (wife, 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 passed	nsubj
2	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	by	by	ADP	_	4 me	case
4	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 passed	obl
5	without	without	SCONJ	_	6 noticing	mark
6	noticing	notice	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 passed	advcl
7	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 noticing	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 began	punct
9	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 passed	conj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 dig	mark
11	dig	dig	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 began	xcomp
12	up	up	ADP	_	11 dig	compound:prt
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 corpse	det
14	corpse	corpse	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 dig	obj
15	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 buried	nsubj:pass
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 buried	aux
17	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 buried	aux:pass
18	buried	bury	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 corpse	acl:relcl
19	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	20 day	det
20	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 buried	obl:unmarked
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 sat	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 sat	cc
23	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	24 sat	advmod
24	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 passed	conj
25	down	down	ADP	_	24 sat	compound:prt
26	on	on	ADP	_	28 edge	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 edge	det
28	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 sat	obl
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 grave	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 grave	det
31	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 edge	nmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 enjoy	punct
33	to	to	PART	_	34 enjoy	mark
34	enjoy	enjoy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 sat	advcl
35	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 repast	nmod:poss
36	frightful	frightful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 repast	amod
37	repast	repast	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 enjoy	obj
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 talking	punct
39	talking	talk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	34 enjoy	advcl
40	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	39 talking	advmod
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 cheerfully	cc
42	cheerfully	cheerfully	ADV	_	40 quietly	conj
43	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	45 while	det:predet
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 while	det
45	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 talking	obl
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 hear	punct
47	though	though	SCONJ	_	54 hear	mark
48	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	54 hear	nsubj
49	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	54 hear	cop
50	too	too	ADV	_	51 far	advmod
51	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	52 off	advmod
52	off	off	ADV	_	54 hear	advmod
53	to	to	PART	_	54 hear	mark
54	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 sat	advcl
55	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	57 said	obj
56	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	57 said	nsubj
57	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	54 hear	ccomp
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 passed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pass	past	wife				by me	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by i=Location
2	notice	gerund	wife not said here	me				vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus
3	begin	past	wife not said here					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	dig up	to-infinitive	wife not said here	a corpse				vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent corpse=Theme
5	bury	past · perfect · passive		a corpse		day		vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
6	sit down	past	wife not said here		the edge of the grave	then		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on edge=Location
7	enjoy	to-infinitive	wife not said here	wife's frightful repast				vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer repast=Stimulus
8	talk	gerund	wife not said here			while	quietly property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
9	is	past	I				hear, off property	tree rules
10	say speech: assert	past	wife					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic

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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