The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 14, sentence 63

At last we reached Balsora, whence I hastened to Bagdad, where my first action was to bestow large sums of money upon the poor, after which I settled down to enjoy tranquilly the riches I had gained with so much toil and pain.

Who acts: we, I, first action, my · What happens: reach, hasten, be, settle down, enjoy, gain · To what, where: Balsora, last, Bagdad, riches, money

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, I, first action, 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 last	case
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 reached	obl
3	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 reached	nsubj
4	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	Balsora	Balsora	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 reached	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 hastened	punct
7	whence	whence	ADV	PronType=Int	9 hastened	advmod
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 hastened	nsubj
9	hastened	hasten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 reached	conj
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 Bagdad	case
11	Bagdad	Bagdad	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 hastened	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 bestow	punct
13	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	19 bestow	advmod
14	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 action	nmod:poss
15	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	16 action	amod
16	action	action	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 bestow	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 bestow	cop
18	to	to	PART	_	19 bestow	mark
19	bestow	bestow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 hastened	parataxis
20	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 sums	amod
21	sums	sum	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 bestow	obj
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 money	case
23	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 sums	nmod
24	upon	upon	ADP	_	26 poor	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 poor	det
26	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 bestow	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 settled	punct
28	after	after	ADP	_	29 which	case
29	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 settled	obl
30	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 settled	nsubj
31	settled	settle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 bestow	conj
32	down	down	ADV	_	31 settled	advmod
33	to	to	PART	_	34 enjoy	mark
34	enjoy	enjoy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 settled	xcomp
35	tranquilly	tranquilly	ADV	_	34 enjoy	advmod
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 riches	det
37	riches	rich	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 enjoy	obj
38	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	40 gained	nsubj
39	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 gained	aux
40	gained	gain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	37 riches	acl:relcl
41	with	with	ADP	_	44 toil	case
42	so	so	ADV	_	43 much	advmod
43	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 toil	amod
44	toil	toil	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 enjoy	obl
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 pain	cc
46	pain	pain	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 toil	conj
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 reached	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	reach	past	we	Balsora		last		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent balsora=Theme at last=Asset
2	hasten	past	I		Bagdad		whence property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent to bagdad=Result
3	is	past	my first action				upon the poor; bestow property	tree rules
4	settle down	past	I				down property	tree rules
5	enjoy	to-infinitive	I not said here	the riches			with much toil and pain; tranquilly property	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rich=Stimulus
6	gain	past · perfect	I	the riches not said here				vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rich=Theme
7	act		my					nom action «act intransitive»: poss=agent
8	sum			money				nom sum «possession transitive»: of=patient

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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