The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 16, sentence 7

I stayed with them until they had collected as much pepper as they wished, and then they took me back to their own country and presented me to their king, by whom I was hospitably received.

Who acts: I, savages · What happens: stay, collect, wish, take back, present, receive · To what, where: savages, me, own country, king, I

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, savages), 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 stayed	nsubj
2	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	4 them	case
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stayed	obl
5	until	until	SCONJ	_	8 collected	mark
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 collected	nsubj:pass
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 collected	aux
8	collected	collect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 stayed	advcl
9	as	as	ADP	_	11 pepper	case
10	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 pepper	amod
11	pepper	pepper	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 collected	obl
12	as	as	SCONJ	_	14 wished	mark
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 wished	nsubj
14	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 collected	advcl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 took	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 took	cc
17	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	19 took	advmod
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 took	nsubj
19	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 stayed	conj
20	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 took	obj
21	back	back	ADV	_	19 took	advmod
22	to	to	ADP	_	25 country	case
23	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 country	nmod:poss
24	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 country	amod
25	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 took	obl
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 presented	cc
27	presented	present	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 stayed	conj
28	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 presented	obj
29	to	to	ADP	_	31 king	case
30	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 king	nmod:poss
31	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 presented	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 whom	punct
33	by	by	ADP	_	34 whom	case
34	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 presented	obl
35	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	38 received	nsubj
36	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 received	aux:pass
37	hospitably	hospitably	ADV	_	38 received	advmod
38	received	receive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	34 whom	acl:relcl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 stayed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	past	I					with savages = savage	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with they=Location
2	collect	past · perfect · passive		savages = savage				as much pepper	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	wish	past	savages = savage						vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
4	take back	past	savages = savage	me		savages's own country	then		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme to country=Destination
5	present	past	I not said here	me	savages's king				vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Theme to king=Recipient
6	receive	past · passive		I				hospitably property	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: subject=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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