The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 17, sentence 8

Pitying his age and feebleness, I took him up, and wading across the stream I bent down that he might more easily reach the bank, and bade him get down.

Who acts: I, man · What happens: pity, take up, wade, bend down, reach, get down · To what, where: age, man, stream, bank, bade

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, man), 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	Pitying	pity	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 took	advcl
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 age	nmod:poss
3	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Pitying	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 feebleness	cc
5	feebleness	feebleness	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 age	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Pitying	punct
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 took	nsubj
8	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 took	obj
10	up	up	ADP	_	8 took	compound:prt
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 bent	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 bent	cc
13	wading	wade	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 bent	csubj
14	across	across	ADP	_	16 stream	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 stream	det
16	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 wading	obl
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 bent	nsubj
18	bent	bend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 took	conj
19	down	down	ADP	_	18 bent	compound:prt
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 reach	mark
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 reach	nsubj
22	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 reach	aux
23	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	24 easily	advmod
24	easily	easily	ADV	_	25 reach	advmod
25	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 bent	advcl
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 bank	det
27	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 reach	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 get	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 get	cc
30	bade	bade	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 get	obl
31	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 bade	obj
32	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 took	parataxis
33	down	down	ADV	_	32 get	advmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	pity	gerund	I not said here	man's age and feebleness				vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer age=Stimulus
2	take up	past	I		man			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination
3	wade	gerund				the stream		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across stream=Trajectory
4	bend down	past	I					vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	reach	might	man	the bank			easily property	vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent bank=Theme
6	get down	present		bade			down property	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=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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