The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 16, sentence 10

Moreover, the king treated me with special favour, and in consequence of this everyone, whether at the court or in the town, sought to make life pleasant to me.

Who acts: king · What happens: treat, seek, make · To what, where: me, consequence, court, life

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king), 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	Moreover	moreover	ADV	_	5 treated	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Moreover	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 king	det
4	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 treated	nsubj
5	treated	treat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 treated	obj
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 favour	case
8	special	special	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 favour	amod
9	favour	favour	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 treated	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 consequence	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 consequence	cc
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 consequence	case
13	consequence	consequence	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 treated	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 everyone	case
15	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 everyone	det
16	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	13 consequence	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 sought	punct
18	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	27 sought	mark
19	at	at	ADP	_	21 court	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 court	det
21	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 sought	obl
22	or	or	CCONJ	_	25 town	cc
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 town	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 town	det
25	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 court	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 court	punct
27	sought	seek	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 treated	conj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 make	mark
29	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 sought	advcl
30	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 make	obj
31	pleasant	pleasant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 make	xcomp
32	to	to	ADP	_	33 me	case
33	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 pleasant	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 treated	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	treat	past	the king		me	consequence of everyone	with special favour; moreover property	vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient with favour=Theme
2	seek	participle	the king not said here			the court or the town		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent at court=Location
3	make	to-infinitive	the king not said here	life			pleasant property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset life=Product

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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