The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 13, sentence 53

I told him my adventures, and heard in return that he was one of the grooms of Mihrage, the king of the island, and that each year they came to feed their master's horses in this plain.

Who acts: I, man, islands, my · What happens: tell, hear, be, come, feed, adventure · To what, where: adventures, man, return, one, horses, plain · 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, man, islands, my), 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 told	nsubj
2	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 told	iobj
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 adventures	nmod:poss
5	adventures	adventure	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 told	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 heard	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 heard	cc
8	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 told	parataxis
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 return	case
10	return	return	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 heard	obl
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 one	mark
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 one	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 one	cop
14	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 heard	conj
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 grooms	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 grooms	det
17	grooms	groom	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 one	nmod
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 Mihrage	case
19	Mihrage	Mihrage	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 grooms	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 king	punct
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 king	det
22	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 Mihrage	appos
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 island	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 island	det
25	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 king	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 came	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 came	cc
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 year	mark
29	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	30 year	det
30	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 came	obl:unmarked
31	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 came	nsubj
32	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 told	parataxis
33	to	to	PART	_	34 feed	mark
34	feed	feed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 came	xcomp
35	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 master	nmod:poss
36	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 horses	nmod:poss
37	's	's	PART	_	36 master	case
38	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 feed	obj
39	in	in	ADP	_	41 plain	case
40	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	41 plain	det
41	plain	plain	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 feed	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	I	my adventures	man				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient adventure=Topic
2	hear	participle				return			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
3	is a	past	man	one				of the grooms of Mihrage	tree rules
4	come	past	islands = island				year		tree rules
5	feed	to-infinitive	islands = island not said here	islands's master's horses		this plain			vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent horse=Value in plain=Location
6	adventure		my						nom adventure «act transitive»: poss=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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