The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 18, sentence 59
After thanking him for the honour that he did me, I displayed the Caliph's gifts.
Who acts: I, Sindbad, Caliph · What happens: thank, do, display, gift · To what, where: Sindbad, me, gifts
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, Sindbad, 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 | After | after | SCONJ | _ | 2 thanking | mark |
| 2 | thanking | thank | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 displayed | advcl |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 thanking | obj |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 honour | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 honour | det |
| 6 | honour | honour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 thanking | obl |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 did | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 did | nsubj |
| 9 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 honour | acl:relcl |
| 10 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 did | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 thanking | punct |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 displayed | nsubj |
| 13 | displayed | display | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Caliph | det |
| 15 | Caliph | Caliph | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 gifts | nmod:poss |
| 16 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 15 Caliph | case |
| 17 | gifts | gift | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 displayed | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 displayed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | thank speech: thank | gerund | I not said here | Sindbad | for the honour | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent he=Theme for honour=Attribute | |||
| 2 | do | past | Sindbad | me | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | display | past | I | the Caliph's gifts | vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gift=Theme | ||||
| 4 | gift | the Caliph | nom gift «possession transitive»: poss=agent |
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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