The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 13, sentence 83

However, when I had explained to him how my bales had been miraculously restored to me, he graciously accepted my gifts, and in return gave me many valuable things.

Who acts: I, king, my · What happens: explain, restore, accept, give, gift · To what, where: king, bales, me, gifts, many valuable things, return

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, king, 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	However	however	ADV	_	21 accepted	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 However	punct
3	when	when	SCONJ	_	6 explained	mark
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 explained	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 explained	aux
6	explained	explain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	21 accepted	advcl
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 him	case
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 explained	obl
9	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	15 restored	advmod
10	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 bales	nmod:poss
11	bales	bale	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 restored	nsubj:pass
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 restored	aux
13	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 restored	aux:pass
14	miraculously	miraculously	ADV	_	15 restored	advmod
15	restored	restore	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 explained	conj
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 me	case
17	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 restored	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 explained	punct
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 accepted	nsubj
20	graciously	graciously	ADV	_	21 accepted	advmod
21	accepted	accept	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
22	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 gifts	nmod:poss
23	gifts	gift	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 accepted	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 gave	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 gave	cc
26	in	in	ADP	_	27 return	case
27	return	return	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 gave	obl
28	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 accepted	conj
29	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 gave	iobj
30	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 things	amod
31	valuable	valuable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 things	amod
32	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 gave	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 accepted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	explain speech: assert	past · perfect	I		king			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient
2	restore	past · perfect · passive		my bales	me		miraculously property	vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to i=Recipient
3	accept	past	king	my gifts			graciously, however property	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gift=Theme
4	give	past	king not said here	many valuable things	me	return		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient thing=Theme
5	gift		my					nom gift «possession 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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