The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 15, sentence 77

I gave largely to the poor, and bought much land to add to what I already possessed, and thus ended my third voyage.

Who acts: I, my · What happens: give, buy, add, possess, end, voyage · To what, where: poor, much land, third voyage

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, 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 gave	nsubj
2	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	largely	largely	ADV	_	2 gave	advmod
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 poor	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 poor	det
6	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 gave	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 bought	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 bought	cc
9	bought	buy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 gave	conj
10	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 land	amod
11	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bought	obj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 add	mark
13	add	add	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 bought	advcl
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 what	case
15	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 add	obl
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 possessed	nsubj
17	already	already	ADV	_	18 possessed	advmod
18	possessed	possess	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 what	acl:relcl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 ended	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 ended	cc
21	thus	thus	ADV	_	22 ended	advmod
22	ended	end	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 gave	conj
23	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 voyage	nmod:poss
24	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	25 voyage	amod
25	voyage	voyage	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 ended	obj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	give	past	I		the poor	largely property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to poor=Recipient
2	buy	past	I not said here	much land			vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent land=Theme
3	add speech: assert	to-infinitive	I not said here				vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: agent=Patient to what=Co-Patient
4	possess	past	I				vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot
5	end	past	I not said here	my third voyage		thus property	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality voyage=Eventuality
6	voyage		my				nom voyage «act 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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