The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 19, sentence 21
Sindbad then gave him a hundred sequins, and hence-forward counted him among his friends; also he caused him to give up his profession as a porter, and to eat daily at his table that he might all his life remember Sindbad the Sailor.
Who acts: Sindbad · What happens: give, count, cause, give up, eat, remember · To what, where: hundred sequins, Hindbad, profession, table, Sindbad
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sindbad), 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 | Sindbad | Sindbad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 gave | advmod |
| 3 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 gave | iobj |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 hundred | det |
| 6 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 sequins | nummod |
| 7 | sequins | sequin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 gave | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 counted | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 counted | cc |
| 10 | hence | hence | ADV | _ | 13 counted | advmod |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 hence | punct |
| 12 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 13 counted | advmod |
| 13 | counted | count | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 gave | conj |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 counted | obj |
| 15 | among | among | ADP | _ | 17 friends | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 friends | nmod:poss |
| 17 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 counted | obl |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 caused | punct |
| 19 | also | also | ADV | _ | 21 caused | advmod |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 caused | nsubj |
| 21 | caused | cause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 gave | parataxis |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 caused | iobj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 give | mark |
| 24 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 caused | xcomp |
| 25 | up | up | ADP | _ | 24 give | compound:prt |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 profession | nmod:poss |
| 27 | profession | profession | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 give | obj |
| 28 | as | as | ADP | _ | 30 porter | case |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 porter | det |
| 30 | porter | porter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 give | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 eat | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 eat | cc |
| 33 | to | to | PART | _ | 34 eat | mark |
| 34 | eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 gave | parataxis |
| 35 | daily | daily | ADV | _ | 34 eat | advmod |
| 36 | at | at | ADP | _ | 38 table | case |
| 37 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 table | nmod:poss |
| 38 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 eat | obl |
| 39 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 45 remember | mark |
| 40 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 remember | nsubj |
| 41 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 45 remember | aux |
| 42 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 44 life | det:predet |
| 43 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 44 life | nmod:poss |
| 44 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 remember | nsubj |
| 45 | remember | remember | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 eat | advcl |
| 46 | Sindbad | Sindbad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 45 remember | obj |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 Sailor | det |
| 48 | Sailor | Sailor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 46 Sindbad | appos |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | Sindbad | hundred sequins | Hindbad | then | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient sequin=Theme | ||
| 2 | count | past | Sindbad not said here | Hindbad | among Sindbad's friends; forward, hence property | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 3 | cause | past | Sindbad | Hindbad | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | give up | to-infinitive | Sindbad not said here | Sindbad's profession | as a porter | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent profession=Source | |||
| 5 | eat | to-infinitive | Sindbad's table | daily property | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | remember | might | Sindbad | Sindbad | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent sindbad=Theme |
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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