The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 17, sentence 27

As soon as we had as many as we could carry we went back to the town, where my friend bought my share and advised me to continue the same occupation until I had earned money enough to carry me to my own country.

Who acts: we, friend, me, I, my · What happens: have, carry, go back, buy, advise, continue · To what, where: many, share, me, same occupation, money, own country

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, friend, me, I), 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	As	as	ADV	_	2 soon	advmod
2	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 had	advmod
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	5 had	mark
4	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 had	nsubj
5	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	as	as	ADV	_	7 many	advmod
7	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 had	obj
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	11 carry	mark
9	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 carry	nsubj
10	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 carry	aux
11	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 many	advcl
12	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 went	nsubj
13	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 carry	ccomp
14	back	back	ADV	_	13 went	advmod
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 town	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 town	det
17	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 went	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 bought	punct
19	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	22 bought	advmod
20	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 friend	nmod:poss
21	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 bought	nsubj
22	bought	buy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 went	parataxis
23	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 share	nmod:poss
24	share	share	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 bought	obj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 advised	cc
26	advised	advise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 bought	conj
27	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 advised	obj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 continue	mark
29	continue	continue	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 advised	xcomp
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 occupation	det
31	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 occupation	amod
32	occupation	occupation	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 continue	obj
33	until	until	SCONJ	_	36 earned	mark
34	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	36 earned	nsubj
35	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 earned	aux
36	earned	earn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	29 continue	advcl
37	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 earned	obj
38	enough	enough	ADV	_	36 earned	advmod
39	to	to	PART	_	40 carry	mark
40	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 earned	advcl
41	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	40 carry	obj
42	to	to	ADP	_	45 country	case
43	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	45 country	nmod:poss
44	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 country	amod
45	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 carry	obl
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	we	many		soon property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent many=Patient
2	carry	could	we				tree rules
3	go back	past	we			to the town result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to town=Result
4	buy	past	my friend	my share			vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent share=Theme
5	advise speech: other	past	my friend not said here	me			vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP how S_INF»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic
6	continue not said to happen	to-infinitive	me not said here	the same occupation			vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent occupation=Theme
7	earn	past · perfect	I	money		enough property	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Theme
8	carry	to-infinitive	I not said here	me	my own country		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme to country=Destination
9	share		my				nom share «possession 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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