The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 16, sentence 14

I found a clever workman, and made him cut out under my direction the foundation of a saddle, which I wadded and covered with choice leather, adorning it with rich gold embroidery.

Who acts: I, king, foundation · What happens: find, make, cut out, wad, cover, adorn · To what, where: clever workman, king, direction, foundation

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 (I, king, foundation), 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 found	nsubj
2	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 workman	det
4	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 workman	amod
5	workman	workman	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 found	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 made	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 made	cc
8	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 found	conj
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 made	obj
10	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 made	xcomp
11	out	out	ADP	_	10 cut	compound:prt
12	under	under	ADP	_	14 direction	case
13	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 direction	nmod:poss
14	direction	direction	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cut	obl
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 foundation	det
16	foundation	foundation	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 wadded	nsubj
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 saddle	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 saddle	det
19	saddle	saddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 foundation	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 wadded	punct
21	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 wadded	nsubj
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 wadded	nsubj
23	wadded	wad	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 direction	acl:relcl
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 covered	cc
25	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 cut	conj
26	with	with	ADP	_	28 leather	case
27	choice	choice	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 leather	compound
28	leather	leather	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 covered	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 adorning	punct
30	adorning	adorn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 made	advcl
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 adorning	obj
32	with	with	ADP	_	35 embroidery	case
33	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 embroidery	amod
34	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 embroidery	compound
35	embroidery	embroidery	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 adorning	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	find	past	I	a clever workman			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent workman=Topic
2	make	past	I not said here	king			tree rules
3	cut out	participle	king not said here		my direction		vn stop-55.4-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
4	wad	past	the foundation of a saddle				vn knead-26.5 «NP.material V PP.product»: agent=Material
5	cover	participle	king not said here			with choice leather	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with leather=Theme
6	adorn	gerund	I not said here	foundation		with rich gold embroidery	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Destination with embroidery=Theme

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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