The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 13, sentence 86

I bought land and slaves, and built a great house in which I resolved to live happily, and in the enjoyment of all the pleasures of life to forget my past sufferings.

Who acts: I, my · What happens: buy, build, resolve, live, forget, enjoy · To what, where: land, great house, past sufferings, pleasures, life

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, 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 bought	nsubj
2	bought	buy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bought	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 slaves	cc
5	slaves	slave	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 land	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 built	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 built	cc
8	built	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 bought	conj
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 house	det
10	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 house	amod
11	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 built	obj
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 which	case
13	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 resolved	obl
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 resolved	nsubj
15	resolved	resolve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 house	acl:relcl
16	to	to	PART	_	17 live	mark
17	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 resolved	xcomp
18	happily	happily	ADV	_	17 live	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 enjoyment	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 enjoyment	cc
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 enjoyment	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 enjoyment	det
23	enjoyment	enjoyment	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bought	conj
24	of	of	ADP	_	27 pleasures	case
25	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	27 pleasures	det:predet
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 pleasures	det
27	pleasures	pleasure	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 enjoyment	nmod
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 life	case
29	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 pleasures	nmod
30	to	to	PART	_	31 forget	mark
31	forget	forget	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 bought	advcl
32	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 sufferings	nmod:poss
33	past	past	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 sufferings	amod
34	sufferings	suffering	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 forget	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 bought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	buy	past	I	land and slaves			vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent land=Theme
2	build	past	I not said here	a great house			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset house=Product
3	resolve	past	I		a great house		tree rules
4	live	to-infinitive	I not said here			happily property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	forget	to-infinitive	I not said here	my past sufferings			tree rules
6	enjoy			all pleasures of life			nom enjoyment «feeling transitive»: of=patient
7	please			life			nom pleasure «feeling transitive»: of=patient
8	suffer		my				nom suffering «state intransitive»: 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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