The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 2, sentence 148
With this intention he sold all he had and bought merchandise suitable to the voyages he was about to make.
Who acts: brother · What happens: sell, have, buy, be, make · To what, where: voyages
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 (brother), 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 intention | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 intention | det |
| 3 | intention | intention | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sold | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 sold | nsubj |
| 5 | sold | sell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 suitable | obl |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 had | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 all | acl:relcl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 merchandise | cc |
| 10 | bought | buy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 merchandise | amod |
| 11 | merchandise | merchandise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 all | conj |
| 12 | suitable | suitable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 sold | ccomp |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 voyages | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 voyages | det |
| 15 | voyages | voyage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 suitable | obl |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 about | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 about | cop |
| 18 | about | about | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 voyages | acl:relcl |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 make | mark |
| 20 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 about | xcomp |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 sold | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sell | past | brother | with this intention | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | have | past | brother | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | buy | participle | vn accept-77.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | is | past | brother | the voyages not said here | about property | tree rules | |||
| 5 | make | to-infinitive | brother not said here | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=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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