The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 6, sentence 5

In the reign of the Caliph Haroun-al-Raschid, there lived at Bagdad a porter who, in spite of his humble calling, was an intelligent and sensible man.

Who acts: porter, Bagdad · What happens: live, be, spite, call · To what, where: porter, reign, intelligent man, humble calling · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (porter, Bagdad), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 reign	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 reign	det
3	reign	reign	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 lived	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 Caliph	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Caliph	det
6	Caliph	Caliph	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 reign	nmod
7	Haroun	Haroun	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Caliph	flat
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 al	punct
9	al	Al	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Caliph	flat
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 Raschid	punct
11	Raschid	Raschid	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 al	flat
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 reign	punct
13	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	14 lived	expl
14	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	at	at	ADP	_	16 Bagdad	case
16	Bagdad	Bagdad	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 lived	obl
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 porter	det
18	porter	porter	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 lived	obj
19	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 man	nsubj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 spite	punct
21	in	in	ADP	_	22 spite	case
22	spite	spite	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 who	appos
23	of	of	ADP	_	26 calling	case
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 calling	nmod:poss
25	humble	humble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 calling	amod
26	calling	calling	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 spite	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 spite	punct
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 man	cop
29	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 man	det
30	intelligent	intelligent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 man	amod
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 sensible	cc
32	sensible	sensible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 intelligent	conj
33	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 porter	acl:relcl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	live	past		a porter	the reign of the Caliph; there	at Bagdad	vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme porter=Location
2	is a	past	a porter	a intelligent man			tree rules
3	spite			Bagdad's humble calling			nom spite «feeling transitive»: of=patient
4	call		Bagdad				nom calling «act transitive»: poss=agent

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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