The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 9, sentence 58

The old well had long been inhabited (unknown to mere human beings) by a set of fairies and genii, who caught the dervish as he fell, so that he received no hurt.

Who acts: set, genii, dervish · What happens: inhabit, catch, fall, receive · To what, where: dervish, hurt

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (set, genii, dervish), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 old	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 inhabited	advcl
3	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 old	advmod
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 inhabited	aux
5	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 inhabited	advmod
6	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 inhabited	aux:pass
7	inhabited	inhabit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	(	(	PUNCT	_	9 unknown	punct
9	unknown	unknown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 inhabited	xcomp
10	to	to	ADP	_	13 beings	case
11	mere	mere	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 beings	amod
12	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 beings	amod
13	beings	being	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 unknown	obl
14	)	)	PUNCT	_	9 unknown	punct
15	by	by	ADP	_	17 set	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 set	det
17	set	set	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 inhabited	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 fairies	case
19	fairies	fairy	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 set	nmod
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 genii	cc
21	genii	genii	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 set	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 caught	punct
23	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 caught	nsubj
24	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 genii	acl:relcl
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 dervish	det
26	dervish	dervish	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 caught	obj
27	as	as	SCONJ	_	29 fell	mark
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 fell	nsubj
29	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 caught	advcl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 received	punct
31	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	34 received	mark
32	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 so	fixed
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 received	nsubj
34	received	receive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 fell	conj
35	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	36 hurt	det
36	hurt	hurt	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 received	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 inhabited	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	inhabit	past · perfect · passive	a set of fairies and genii		long, unknown property	tree rules
2	catch	past	genii	the dervish		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dervish=Theme
3	fall	past	dervish			vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	receive	past	dervish	no hurt		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hurt=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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