The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 13, sentence 14

Every day I suffer a thousand hardships and misfortunes, and have hard work to get even enough bad barley bread to keep myself and my family alive, while the lucky Sindbad spends money right and left and lives upon the fat of the land!

Who acts: I, lucky Sindbad · What happens: suffer, have, get, keep, spend, leave · To what, where: thousand hardships, hard work, enough bad barley bread, myself, money, fat

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, lucky Sindbad), 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	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	2 day	det
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 suffer	obl:unmarked
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 suffer	nsubj
4	suffer	suffer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 thousand	det
6	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 hardships	nummod
7	hardships	hardship	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 suffer	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 misfortunes	cc
9	misfortunes	misfortune	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 hardships	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 have	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 have	cc
12	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 suffer	conj
13	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 work	amod
14	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 have	obj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 get	mark
16	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 work	acl
17	even	even	ADV	_	21 bread	advmod
18	enough	enough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 bread	amod
19	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 bread	amod
20	barley	barley	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 bread	compound
21	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 get	obl
22	to	to	PART	_	23 keep	mark
23	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 get	advcl
24	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	23 keep	obj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 family	cc
26	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 family	nmod:poss
27	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 myself	conj
28	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 keep	xcomp
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 spends	punct
30	while	while	SCONJ	_	34 spends	mark
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 Sindbad	det
32	lucky	lucky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 Sindbad	amod
33	Sindbad	Sindbad	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 spends	nsubj
34	spends	spend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 suffer	parataxis
35	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 spends	obj
36	right	right	ADV	_	38 left	advmod
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 left	cc
38	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 spends	ccomp
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 lives	cc
40	lives	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 spends	conj
41	upon	upon	ADP	_	43 fat	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 fat	det
43	fat	fat	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 lives	obl
44	of	of	ADP	_	46 land	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 land	det
46	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 fat	nmod
47	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 suffer	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	suffer	present	I	thousand hardships and misfortunes		day		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hardship=Stimulus
2	have	present	I not said here	hard work				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Patient
3	get	to-infinitive	I not said here	enough bad barley bread				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
4	keep	to-infinitive	I not said here	myself			alive property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent myself=Theme
5	spend	present	the lucky Sindbad	money				vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent money=Asset clause=Goal
6	leave	past	the lucky Sindbad not said here				right property	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	live	present	the lucky Sindbad not said here		the fat of the land			vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon fat=Location

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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