The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 16, sentence 8
To him also I had to relate my adventures, which surprised him much, and when I had finished he ordered that I should be supplied with food and raiment and treated with consideration.
Who acts: I, adventures, king, my · What happens: relate, surprise, finish, order, supply, treat · To what, where: adventures, 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, adventures, king, my), 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 | To | to | ADP | _ | 2 him | case |
| 2 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 had | obl |
| 3 | also | also | ADV | _ | 5 had | advmod |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 had | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 finished | aux |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 relate | mark |
| 7 | relate | relate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 had | xcomp |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 adventures | nmod:poss |
| 9 | adventures | adventure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 relate | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 surprised | punct |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 surprised | nsubj |
| 12 | surprised | surprise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 adventures | acl:relcl |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 surprised | obj |
| 14 | much | much | ADV | _ | 12 surprised | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 finished | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 finished | cc |
| 17 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 20 finished | advmod |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 finished | nsubj |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 finished | aux |
| 20 | finished | finish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 22 ordered | advcl |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 ordered | nsubj |
| 22 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 23 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 27 supplied | mark |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 supplied | nsubj |
| 25 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 supplied | aux |
| 26 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 27 supplied | aux:pass |
| 27 | supplied | supply | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 ordered | ccomp |
| 28 | with | with | ADP | _ | 29 food | case |
| 29 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 supplied | obl |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 raiment | cc |
| 31 | raiment | raiment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 food | conj |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 treated | cc |
| 33 | treated | treat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 supplied | conj |
| 34 | with | with | ADP | _ | 35 consideration | case |
| 35 | consideration | consideration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 treated | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 ordered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | relate | to-infinitive | I not said here | my adventures | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent adventure=Theme | ||||
| 2 | surprise | past | my adventures | king | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | finish | past · perfect | I | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | order | past | king | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | supply | should · passive | I | with food and raiment | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: subject=Recipient with food=Theme | ||||
| 6 | treat | participle | with consideration | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP»: agent=Agent with consideration=Theme | |||||
| 7 | adventure | my | nom adventure «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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