The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 8, sentence 47

My face and hands had been burned nearly black; my clothes were all in rags, and my shoes were in such a state that I had been forced to abandon them altogether.

Who acts: clothes, shoes, state · What happens: burn, be, force, abandon · To what, where: face, rags, state, shoes

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (clothes, shoes, state), 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 face	nmod:poss
2	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 burned	nsubj:pass
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 hands	cc
4	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 face	conj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 burned	aux
6	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 burned	aux:pass
7	burned	burn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	9 black	advmod
9	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 burned	xcomp
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 rags	punct
11	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 clothes	nmod:poss
12	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	16 rags	nsubj
13	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 rags	cop
14	all	all	ADV	_	16 rags	advmod
15	in	in	ADP	_	16 rags	case
16	rags	rag	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 burned	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 state	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 state	cc
19	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 shoes	nmod:poss
20	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 state	nsubj
21	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 state	cop
22	in	in	ADP	_	25 state	case
23	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	25 state	det:predet
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 state	det
25	state	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 rags	appos
26	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 forced	nsubj:pass
27	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 forced	nsubj:pass
28	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 forced	aux
29	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	30 forced	aux:pass
30	forced	force	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 state	acl:relcl
31	to	to	PART	_	32 abandon	mark
32	abandon	abandon	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 forced	xcomp
33	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 abandon	obj
34	altogether	altogether	ADV	_	32 abandon	advmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 burned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	burn	past · perfect · passive		My face and hands		black property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme
2	is	past	my clothes		rags	all property	tree rules
3	is	past	my shoes		such state		tree rules
4	force	past · perfect · passive		such state			vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
5	abandon	to-infinitive	such state not said here	shoes = shoe		altogether property	vn leave-51.2 «NP V NP.initial_location»: agent=Theme they=Source

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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