The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 18, sentence 37
So saying he dismissed me with rich presents, and I returned in peace to my own house.
Who acts: I · What happens: say, dismiss, return · To what, where: me, peace · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 18. 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.
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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 dismissed | advmod |
| 2 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 dismissed | nsubj |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 dismissed | nsubj |
| 4 | dismissed | dismiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 dismissed | obj |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 presents | case |
| 7 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 presents | amod |
| 8 | presents | present | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 dismissed | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 returned | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 returned | cc |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 returned | nsubj |
| 12 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 dismissed | conj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 peace | case |
| 14 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 returned | obl |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 house | case |
| 16 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 house | nmod:poss |
| 17 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 house | amod |
| 18 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 returned | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 dismissed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | gerund | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | dismiss | past | me | with rich presents | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | ||||
| 3 | return | past | I | peace | to my own house result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to house=Result |
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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