The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 13, sentence 40

I had inherited considerable wealth from my parents, and being young and foolish I at first squandered it recklessly upon every kind of pleasure, but presently, finding that riches speedily take to themselves wings if managed as badly as I was managing mine, and remembering also that to be old and poor is misery indeed, I began to bethink me of how I could make the best of what still remained to me.

Who acts: I, riches, finding · What happens: inherit, be, squander, find, take, manage · To what, where: considerable wealth, wealth, wings, riches, mine, that · Speech: someone speaks here

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, riches, finding), 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	3 inherited	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 inherited	aux
3	inherited	inherit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	considerable	considerable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 wealth	amod
5	wealth	wealth	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 inherited	obj
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 parents	case
7	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 parents	nmod:poss
8	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 inherited	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 young	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 young	cc
11	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 young	cop
12	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 inherited	conj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 foolish	cc
14	foolish	foolish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 young	conj
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 inherited	nsubj
16	at	at	SCONJ	_	18 squandered	mark
17	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	18 squandered	advmod
18	squandered	squander	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 inherited	advcl
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 squandered	obj
20	recklessly	recklessly	ADV	_	18 squandered	advmod
21	upon	upon	ADP	_	23 kind	case
22	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	23 kind	det
23	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 squandered	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 pleasure	case
25	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 kind	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 finding	punct
27	but	but	CCONJ	_	30 finding	cc
28	presently	presently	ADV	_	30 finding	advmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 finding	punct
30	finding	find	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	58 misery	csubj
31	that	that	SCONJ	_	34 take	mark
32	riches	rich	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 take	nsubj
33	speedily	speedily	ADV	_	34 take	advmod
34	take	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 finding	ccomp
35	to	to	ADP	_	36 themselves	case
36	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	34 take	obl
37	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 take	obj
38	if	if	SCONJ	_	39 managed	mark
39	managed	manage	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	34 take	advcl
40	as	as	ADV	_	41 badly	advmod
41	badly	badly	ADV	Degree=Pos	39 managed	advmod
42	as	as	SCONJ	_	45 managing	mark
43	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	45 managing	nsubj
44	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 managing	aux
45	managing	manage	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	39 managed	advcl
46	mine	my	PRON	Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	45 managing	obj
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 remembering	punct
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 remembering	cc
49	remembering	remember	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	30 finding	conj
50	also	also	ADV	_	51 that	advmod
51	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	49 remembering	obj
52	to	to	PART	_	54 old	mark
53	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	54 old	cop
54	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 remembering	advcl
55	and	and	CCONJ	_	56 poor	cc
56	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	54 old	conj
57	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	58 misery	cop
58	misery	misery	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 inherited	parataxis
59	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	3 inherited	advmod
60	,	,	PUNCT	_	62 began	punct
61	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	62 began	nsubj
62	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 inherited	conj
63	to	to	PART	_	64 bethink	mark
64	bethink	bethink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	62 began	xcomp
65	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	64 bethink	obj
66	of	of	SCONJ	_	70 make	mark
67	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	70 make	advmod
68	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	70 make	nsubj
69	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	70 make	aux
70	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	64 bethink	advcl
71	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	72 best	det
72	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	70 make	obj
73	of	of	ADP	_	74 what	case
74	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	72 best	obl
75	still	still	ADV	_	76 remained	advmod
76	remained	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	74 what	acl:relcl
77	to	to	ADP	_	78 me	case
78	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	76 remained	obl
79	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 inherited	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	inherit	past · perfect	I	considerable wealth			from my parents; indeed property	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent wealth=Theme from parent=Source
2	is	gerund	I not said here				young property	tree rules
3	be		I not said here					tree rules
4	squander	past	I not said here	wealth			upon every kind of pleasure; first, recklessly property	vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Asset
5	find	gerund					presently property	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
6	take	present	riches	wings	riches = rich		speedily property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent wing=Theme to themselves=Destination
7	manage a condition, not said to happen	participle	riches not said here				badly property	vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	manage	past · progressive	I	mine				vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent my=Theme
9	remember	gerund		that				vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent that=Theme
10	is	to-infinitive					old property	tree rules
11	be							tree rules
12	is a	present	finding	misery				tree rules
13	begin	past	I					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
14	bethink	to-infinitive	I not said here	me				tree rules
15	make	could	I	the best				vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent good=Product
16	remain	past			me	still		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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