The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 16, sentence 74
Again I gave large sums of money to the poor, and enriched all the mosques in the city, after which I gave myself up to my friends and relations, with whom I passed my time in feasting and merriment.
Who acts: I · What happens: give, enrich, give up, pass, sum · To what, where: large sums, poor, mosques, city, myself, friends
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), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg128:1391): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Again | again | ADV | _ | 3 gave | advmod |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 gave | nsubj |
| 3 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 sums | amod |
| 5 | sums | sum | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 gave | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 money | case |
| 7 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sums | nmod |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 poor | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 poor | det |
| 10 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 gave | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 enriched | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 enriched | cc |
| 13 | enriched | enrich | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 gave | conj |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 mosques | det:predet |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 mosques | det |
| 16 | mosques | mosque | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 enriched | obj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 city | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 city | det |
| 19 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 mosques | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 gave | punct |
| 21 | after | after | ADP | _ | 22 which | case |
| 22 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 gave | obl |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 gave | nsubj |
| 24 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 enriched | advcl:relcl |
| 25 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 24 gave | obj |
| 26 | up | up | ADP | _ | 24 gave | compound:prt |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 friends | case |
| 28 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 friends | nmod:poss |
| 29 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 gave | obl |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 relations | cc |
| 31 | relations | relation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 friends | conj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 passed | punct |
| 33 | with | with | ADP | _ | 34 whom | case |
| 34 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 36 passed | obl |
| 35 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 36 passed | nsubj |
| 36 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 friends | acl:relcl |
| 37 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 time | nmod:poss |
| 38 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 passed | obj |
| 39 | in | in | ADP | _ | 40 feasting | case |
| 40 | feasting | feasting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 passed | obl |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 merriment | cc |
| 42 | merriment | merriment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 feasting | conj |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | I | large sums of money | the poor | again | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent sum=Theme to poor=Recipient | ||
| 2 | enrich | past | I not said here | all mosques | the city | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mosque=Destination | |||
| 3 | give up | past | I | myself | my friends and relations | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent myself=Theme to friend=Recipient | |||
| 4 | pass | past | I | feasting and merriment | time | with my friends and relations | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in feasting=Location | ||
| 5 | sum | money | nom sum «possession transitive»: of=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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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