The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 36, sentence 55

The poor man was dumb with horror, then, lifting up his hands, he exclaimed, "Can my old friend really have committed such a crime?"

Who acts: poor man, man, old friend · What happens: be, lift up, exclaim, commit · To what, where: hands, crime · 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 (poor man, man, old friend), 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 man	det
2	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 man	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dumb	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 dumb	cop
5	dumb	dumb	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 horror	case
7	horror	horror	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dumb	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 lifting	punct
9	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 lifting	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 lifting	punct
11	lifting	lift	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 dumb	advcl
12	up	up	ADP	_	11 lifting	compound:prt
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 hands	nmod:poss
14	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 lifting	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 exclaimed	punct
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 exclaimed	nsubj
17	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 dumb	parataxis
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 committed	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	26 committed	punct
20	Can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 committed	aux
21	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 friend	nmod:poss
22	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 friend	amod
23	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 committed	nsubj
24	really	really	ADV	_	26 committed	advmod
25	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 committed	aux
26	committed	commit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 exclaimed	parataxis
27	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	29 crime	det:predet
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 crime	det
29	crime	crime	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 committed	obj
30	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 dumb	punct
31	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 dumb	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the poor man			with horror; dumb property	tree rules
2	lift up	gerund	the poor man not said here	man's hands	then		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme
3	exclaim speech: express	past	man				vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	commit in a quote	can · perfect	my old friend	such crime			vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crime=Theme

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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