The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 15, sentence 49

After I had told my story they regaled me with the choicest food the ship afforded, and the captain, seeing that I was in rags, generously bestowed upon me one of his own coats.

Who acts: I, merchants, rags · What happens: tell, regale, afford, see, be, bestow · To what, where: story, me, ship, rags, one · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, merchants, rags), 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	After	after	SCONJ	_	4 told	mark
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 told	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 told	aux
4	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 regaled	advcl
5	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 story	nmod:poss
6	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 told	obj
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 regaled	nsubj
8	regaled	regale	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 regaled	obj
10	with	with	ADP	_	13 food	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 food	det
12	choicest	choice	ADJ	Degree=Sup	13 food	amod
13	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 regaled	obj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 ship	det
15	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 food	nsubj
16	afforded	afford	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 ship	acl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 captain	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 captain	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 captain	det
20	captain	captain	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 regaled	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 seeing	punct
22	seeing	see	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 regaled	advcl
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 rags	mark
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 rags	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 rags	cop
26	in	in	ADP	_	27 rags	case
27	rags	rag	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 seeing	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 bestowed	punct
29	generously	generously	ADV	_	30 bestowed	advmod
30	bestowed	bestow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 rags	acl
31	upon	upon	ADP	_	32 me	case
32	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 bestowed	obl
33	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	30 bestowed	obj
34	of	of	ADP	_	37 coats	case
35	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 coats	nmod:poss
36	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 coats	amod
37	coats	coat	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 one	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 regaled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past · perfect	I	my story			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient
2	regale	past	merchants = merchant	me		the captain obl	tree rules
3	afford	participle		the ship not said here			tree rules
4	see	gerund	merchants = merchant not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	is	past	I		rags		tree rules
6	bestow	participle	rags not said here	one of chance's own coats		upon me; generously property	tree rules

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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