The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 7, sentence 70

When he had knocked down the whole sepulchre he proceeded to dig at the earth, and beneath where the sepulchre had been I saw a trap-door.

Who acts: prince, sepulchre, I · What happens: knock down, proceed, dig, be, see · To what, where: prince, whole sepulchre, trap door

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, sepulchre, 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	4 knocked	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 knocked	nsubj:pass
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 knocked	aux
4	knocked	knock	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	down	down	ADP	_	4 knocked	compound:prt
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sepulchre	det
7	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 sepulchre	amod
8	sepulchre	sepulchre	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 knocked	obl:unmarked
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 proceeded	nsubj
10	proceeded	proceed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 sepulchre	acl:relcl
11	to	to	PART	_	12 dig	mark
12	dig	dig	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 proceeded	xcomp
13	at	at	ADP	_	15 earth	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 earth	det
15	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 dig	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 saw	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 saw	cc
18	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	23 been	mark
19	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	23 been	advmod
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 sepulchre	det
21	sepulchre	sepulchre	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 been	nsubj
22	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 been	aux
23	been	be	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	25 saw	advcl
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 saw	nsubj
25	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 knocked	conj
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 door	det
27	trap	trap	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 door	compound
28	-	-	PUNCT	_	27 trap	punct
29	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 saw	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 knocked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	knock down	past · perfect · passive		prince	the whole sepulchre obl:unmarked	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: subject=Patient
2	proceed	past	prince	the whole sepulchre not said here		tree rules
3	dig	to-infinitive	prince not said here		at the earth	vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at earth=Theme
4	be	past · perfect	the sepulchre			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	see	past	I	a trap door		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer door=Stimulus

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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