The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 11, sentence 75

I took on myself the duties of a servant, held the basin and water for him when he washed, prepared the dinner and set it on the table.

Who acts: I, Agib · What happens: take on, hold, wash, prepare, set · To what, where: myself, basin, dinner, table

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 (I, Agib), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 took	nsubj
2	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	2 took	compound:prt
4	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	2 took	obl:unmarked
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 duties	det
6	duties	duty	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 took	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 servant	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 servant	det
9	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 duties	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 held	punct
11	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 took	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 basin	det
13	basin	basin	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 held	obj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 water	cc
15	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 basin	conj
16	for	for	ADP	_	17 him	case
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 held	obl
18	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	20 washed	advmod
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 washed	nsubj
20	washed	wash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 took	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 prepared	punct
22	prepared	prepare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 washed	conj
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 dinner	det
24	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 prepared	obj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 set	cc
26	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 washed	conj
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 set	obj
28	on	on	ADP	_	30 table	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 table	det
30	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 set	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	take on	past	I	myself			vn adopt-93.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent duty=Theme
2	hold	past	I not said here	the basin and water		for Agib	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent basin=Theme
3	wash	past	Agib				vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	prepare	past	Agib not said here	the dinner			vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dinner=Patient
5	set	infinitive	Agib not said here	dinner	the table		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme on table=Destination

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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