The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 6, sentence 33

Then they all sat down to table, which had been covered by Amina with the dishes she had bought.

Who acts: Zobeida, Amina, chance · What happens: sit down, cover, buy · To what, where: table, dishes

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Zobeida, Amina, chance), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 sat	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sat	nsubj
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 sat	advmod
4	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	down	down	ADP	_	4 sat	compound:prt
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 table	case
7	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sat	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 covered	punct
9	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 covered	nsubj:pass
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 covered	aux
11	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 covered	aux:pass
12	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 table	acl:relcl
13	by	by	ADP	_	14 Amina	case
14	Amina	Amina	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 covered	obl
15	with	with	ADP	_	17 dishes	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 dishes	det
17	dishes	dish	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 covered	obl
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 bought	nsubj
19	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 bought	aux
20	bought	buy	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 dishes	acl:relcl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	sit down	past	Zobeida		then	to table	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	cover	past · perfect · passive	Amina	table		with the dishes	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent subject=Destination with dish=Theme
3	buy	past · perfect	chance	the dishes not said here			vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dish=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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