The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 9, sentence 84

The instant they were consumed, terrific cries were heard, but no one could tell from whom they proceeded.

Who acts: one, hairs · What happens: consume, hear, tell, proceed · To what, where: hairs, instant · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (one, hairs), 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 instant	det
2	instant	instant	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 heard	nsubj
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 consumed	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 consumed	aux:pass
5	consumed	consume	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 instant	acl:relcl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 cries	punct
7	terrific	terrific	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 cries	amod
8	cries	cry	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 heard	nsubj
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 heard	aux:pass
10	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 tell	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 tell	cc
13	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	14 one	det
14	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 tell	nsubj
15	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 tell	aux
16	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 heard	conj
17	from	from	ADP	_	18 whom	case
18	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 tell	obl
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 proceeded	nsubj
20	proceeded	proceed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 whom	acl:relcl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	consume	past · passive		hairs = hair	vn consume-66 «NP V NP»: subject=Asset
2	hear	past · passive		the instant	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus
3	tell speech: assert	could	no one		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	proceed	past	hairs = hair		vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=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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