The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 17, sentence 28
This I did, and before long had amassed a considerable sum.
Who acts: I · What happens: do, amass · To what, where: This, considerable sum
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 (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:pg128:1436): 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 did | obj |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 did | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 amassed | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 amassed | cc |
| 6 | before | before | ADP | _ | 7 long | case |
| 7 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 amassed | obl |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 amassed | aux |
| 9 | amassed | amass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 did | conj |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 sum | det |
| 11 | considerable | considerable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 sum | amod |
| 12 | sum | sum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 amassed | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | I | This | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | amass | past · perfect | I not said here | a considerable sum | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent sum=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: 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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