The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 2, sentence 146
With this sum we all three took up the same profession, and became merchants.
Who acts: we · What happens: take up, become · To what, where: same profession, merchants
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we), 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 3 sum | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 sum | det |
| 3 | sum | sum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 took | obl |
| 4 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 took | nsubj |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 three | det |
| 6 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 we | nmod |
| 7 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 took | compound:prt |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 profession | det |
| 10 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 profession | amod |
| 11 | profession | profession | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 took | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 became | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 became | cc |
| 14 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 took | conj |
| 15 | merchants | merchant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 became | xcomp |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take up | past | we | the same profession | with this sum | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument profession=Destination | |||
| 2 | become | past | we not said here | merchants | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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