The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 17, sentence 31

With all these treasures I came joyfully back to Bagdad, where I disposed of them for large sums of money, of which I did not fail as before to give the tenth part to the poor, and after that I rested from my labours and comforted myself with all the pleasures that my riches could give me.

Who acts: I, riches · What happens: come, dispose, not fail, give, rest, comfort · To what, where: Bagdad, tenth part, poor, labours, myself, that

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, riches), 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	With	with	ADP	_	4 treasures	case
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 treasures	det:predet
3	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	4 treasures	det
4	treasures	treasure	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 came	obl
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 came	nsubj
6	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	joyfully	joyfully	ADV	_	8 back	advmod
8	back	back	ADV	_	6 came	advmod
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 Bagdad	case
10	Bagdad	Bagdad	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 came	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 disposed	punct
12	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	14 disposed	advmod
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 disposed	nsubj
14	disposed	dispose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 came	conj
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 them	case
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 disposed	obl
17	for	for	ADP	_	19 sums	case
18	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 sums	amod
19	sums	sum	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 disposed	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 money	case
21	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 sums	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 fail	punct
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 which	case
24	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 fail	obl
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 fail	nsubj
26	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 fail	aux
27	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	28 fail	advmod
28	fail	fail	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 disposed	advcl
29	as	as	ADV	_	30 before	advmod
30	before	before	ADV	_	28 fail	advmod
31	to	to	PART	_	32 give	mark
32	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 fail	xcomp
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 part	det
34	tenth	tenth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 part	amod
35	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 give	obj
36	to	to	ADP	_	38 poor	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 poor	det
38	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 give	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 rested	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 rested	cc
41	after	after	ADP	_	42 that	case
42	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	44 rested	obl
43	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	44 rested	nsubj
44	rested	rest	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 came	parataxis
45	from	from	ADP	_	47 labours	case
46	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	47 labours	nmod:poss
47	labours	labour	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 rested	obl
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 comforted	cc
49	comforted	comfort	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 rested	conj
50	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	49 comforted	obj
51	with	with	ADP	_	54 pleasures	case
52	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	54 pleasures	det:predet
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 pleasures	det
54	pleasures	pleasure	NOUN	Number=Plur	49 comforted	obl
55	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	59 give	obj
56	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	57 riches	nmod:poss
57	riches	rich	NOUN	Number=Plur	59 give	nsubj
58	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	59 give	aux
59	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	54 pleasures	parataxis
60	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	59 give	iobj
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	I			Bagdad		with all treasures	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bagdad=Initial_Location
2	dispose	past	I					of treasures = treasure; for large sums of money	vn addict-96 «NP V NP PP.Theme»: agent=Agent
3	not fail	past · do-support	I					before property	vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	give	to-infinitive	I not said here	the tenth part	the poor				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent part=Theme to poor=Recipient
5	rest	past	I			my labours	after that		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	comfort	past	I not said here	myself				with all pleasures	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus myself=Experiencer
7	give	could	my riches	that	me				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient that=Theme
8	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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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