The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 36, sentence 13

Very soon two merchants stopped before the pile, and when they had turned it over, one said to the other:

Who acts: two merchants, duties, one · What happens: stop, turn over, say · To what, where: pile, other · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two merchants, duties, one), 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	Very	very	ADV	_	2 soon	advmod
2	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 stopped	advmod
3	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 merchants	nummod
4	merchants	merchant	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 stopped	nsubj
5	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	before	before	ADP	_	8 pile	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 pile	det
8	pile	pile	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stopped	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 turned	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 turned	cc
11	when	when	SCONJ	_	14 turned	mark
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 turned	nsubj
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 turned	aux
14	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 stopped	conj
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 turned	obj
16	over	over	ADP	_	14 turned	compound:prt
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 said	punct
18	one	one	PRON	Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 said	nsubj
19	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 stopped	conj
20	to	to	ADP	_	22 other	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 other	det
22	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 said	obl
23	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 stopped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	stop	past	two merchants			before the pile	soon property	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	turn over	past · perfect	duties = duty	pile				vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	one		the other			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to other=Recipient

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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