The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 11, sentence 63

My father is a rich merchant, owning much land and many ships, and has great dealings in precious stones, but he never ceased mourning that he had no child to inherit his wealth.

Who acts: father, rich merchant, land · What happens: be, own, have, not cease, mourn, inherit · To what, where: rich merchant, much land, great dealings, precious stones, child, wealth

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, rich merchant, land), 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 father	nmod:poss
2	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 merchant	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 merchant	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 merchant	det
5	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 merchant	amod
6	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 owning	punct
8	owning	own	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 merchant	acl
9	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 land	amod
10	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 owning	obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 ships	cc
12	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 ships	amod
13	ships	ship	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 land	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 has	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 has	cc
16	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 merchant	parataxis
17	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 dealings	amod
18	dealings	dealing	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 has	obj
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 stones	case
20	precious	precious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 stones	amod
21	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 dealings	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 ceased	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 ceased	cc
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 ceased	nsubj
25	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	26 ceased	advmod
26	ceased	cease	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 has	conj
27	mourning	mourn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 ceased	advcl
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 had	mark
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 had	nsubj
30	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 mourning	ccomp
31	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	32 child	det
32	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 had	obj
33	to	to	PART	_	34 inherit	mark
34	inherit	inherit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 child	acl
35	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 wealth	nmod:poss
36	wealth	wealth	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 inherit	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 merchant	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	is a	present	My father	a rich merchant		tree rules
2	own	gerund	a rich merchant not said here	much land and many ships		vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot land=Theme
3	have	present		great dealings	precious stones	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dealing=Patient
4	not cease	past	land			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
5	mourn	gerund	land not said here			vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	have	past	land	no child		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient
7	inherit	to-infinitive	land not said here	land's wealth		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wealth=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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