The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 18, sentence 54

Seeing that there was no help for it, I declared myself willing to obey; and the Caliph, delighted at having got his own way, gave me a thousand sequins for the expenses of the voyage.

Who acts: I, help, Caliph · What happens: see, be, declare, obey, have, get · To what, where: myself, own way, thousand sequins, me · 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, help, Caliph), 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	Seeing	see	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 declared	advcl
2	that	that	SCONJ	_	4 was	mark
3	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	4 was	expl
4	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Seeing	ccomp
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 help	det
6	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 was	nsubj
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 it	case
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 help	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Seeing	punct
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 declared	nsubj
11	declared	declare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	11 declared	obj
13	willing	willing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 declared	xcomp
14	to	to	PART	_	15 obey	mark
15	obey	obey	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 willing	xcomp
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 got	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 got	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Caliph	det
19	Caliph	Caliph	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 got	nsubj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 delighted	punct
21	delighted	delighted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 Caliph	amod
22	at	at	SCONJ	_	23 having	mark
23	having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 delighted	advcl
24	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 declared	parataxis
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 way	nmod:poss
26	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 way	amod
27	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 got	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 gave	punct
29	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 got	conj
30	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 gave	iobj
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 thousand	det
32	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	33 sequins	nummod
33	sequins	sequin	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 gave	obj
34	for	for	ADP	_	36 expenses	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 expenses	det
36	expenses	expense	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 gave	obl
37	of	of	ADP	_	39 voyage	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 voyage	det
39	voyage	voyage	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 expenses	nmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 declared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	see	gerund	I not said here					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	be	past	no help for dignity			there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	declare speech: other	past	I	myself			willing property	vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent myself=Attribute
4	obey	to-infinitive	I not said here					vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	have	gerund	the Caliph not said here					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	get	past	the Caliph	Caliph's own way				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer way=Stimulus
7	give	past	the Caliph not said here	thousand sequins	me		for the expenses of the voyage	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent i=Recipient sequin=Theme for expense=Asset

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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