The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 19, sentence 50

At last the doctor gave it up altogether and resigned himself to bear the penalty of his misfortune.

Who acts: doctor · What happens: give up, resign, bear · To what, where: way, last, doctor, penalty

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 (doctor), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg128:1589): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	At	at	ADP	_	2 last	case
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 gave	obl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 doctor	det
4	doctor	doctor	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gave	nsubj
5	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 gave	obj
7	up	up	ADP	_	5 gave	compound:prt
8	altogether	altogether	ADV	_	5 gave	advmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 resigned	cc
10	resigned	resign	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 gave	conj
11	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	10 resigned	obj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 bear	mark
13	bear	bear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 resigned	xcomp
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 penalty	det
15	penalty	penalty	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 bear	obj
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 misfortune	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 misfortune	nmod:poss
18	misfortune	misfortune	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 penalty	nmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	give up	past	the doctor	way	last	altogether property	vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Source
2	resign	past	the doctor not said here	doctor			tree rules
3	bear	to-infinitive	the doctor not said here	the penalty of doctor's misfortune			vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent penalty=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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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