The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 5, sentence 88

My father died when he was sixty-six, and I succeeded him.

Who acts: father, I · What happens: die, be, succeed · To what, where: sixty six, father

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, 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	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 father	nmod:poss
2	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 died	nsubj
3	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 six	advmod
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 six	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 six	cop
7	sixty	sixty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 six	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 sixty	punct
9	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 died	advcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 succeeded	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 succeeded	cc
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 succeeded	nsubj
13	succeeded	succeed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 died	conj
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 succeeded	obj
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 died	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	die	past	My father		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	is a	past	father	sixty six	tree rules
3	succeed	past	I	father	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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