The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 16, sentence 17

After this I had to make saddles for all the principal officers of the king's household, and as they all gave me rich presents I soon became very wealthy and quite an important person in the city.

Who acts: I, officers · What happens: have, make, give, become · To what, where: saddles, rich presents, me

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, officers), 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	ADP	_	2 this	case
2	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 had	obl
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 make	mark
6	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 had	xcomp
7	saddles	saddle	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 make	obj
8	for	for	ADP	_	12 officers	case
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 officers	det:predet
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 officers	det
11	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 officers	amod
12	officers	officer	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 make	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	17 household	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 king	det
15	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 household	nmod:poss
16	's	's	PART	_	15 king	case
17	household	household	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 officers	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 gave	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 gave	cc
20	as	as	SCONJ	_	23 gave	mark
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 gave	nsubj
22	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	21 they	det
23	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 had	conj
24	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 gave	iobj
25	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 presents	amod
26	presents	present	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 gave	obj
27	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 became	nsubj
28	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	29 became	advmod
29	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 gave	parataxis
30	very	very	ADV	_	31 wealthy	advmod
31	wealthy	wealthy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 became	xcomp
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 person	cc
33	quite	quite	DET	PronType=Ind	36 person	det:predet
34	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 person	det
35	important	important	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 person	amod
36	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 became	conj
37	in	in	ADP	_	39 city	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 city	det
39	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 person	nmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	I			after this		tree rules
2	make	to-infinitive	I not said here	saddles			for all principal officers of the king's household	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent saddle=Material for officer=Beneficiary
3	give	past	officers = officer	rich presents	me			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient present=Theme
4	become	past	I				soon, wealthy property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

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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