The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 15, sentence 76
So by degrees we came back to Balsora, and I returned to Bagdad with so much money that I could not myself count it, besides treasures without end.
Who acts: we, I, much money · What happens: come back, return, not count · To what, where: Balsora, Bagdad, money
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 (we, I, much money), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 5 came | advmod |
| 2 | by | by | ADP | _ | 3 degrees | case |
| 3 | degrees | degree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 came | obl |
| 4 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 came | nsubj |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | back | back | ADV | _ | 5 came | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 Balsora | case |
| 8 | Balsora | Balsora | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 came | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 returned | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 returned | cc |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 returned | nsubj |
| 12 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 came | conj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 Bagdad | case |
| 14 | Bagdad | Bagdad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 returned | obl |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 money | case |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 much | advmod |
| 17 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 money | amod |
| 18 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 returned | obl |
| 19 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 count | nsubj |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 count | nsubj |
| 21 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 count | aux |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 count | advmod |
| 23 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 24 count | nsubj |
| 24 | count | count | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 money | acl:relcl |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 count | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 treasures | punct |
| 27 | besides | besides | ADP | _ | 28 treasures | case |
| 28 | treasures | treasure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 count | obj |
| 29 | without | without | ADP | _ | 30 end | case |
| 30 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 count | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come back | past | we | Balsora | by degrees | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to balsora=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | return | past | I | Bagdad | with much money | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to bagdad=Result | |||
| 3 | not count | could | much money | money | without end | 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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