The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 2, sentence 47
The next day the merchant began to settle his affairs, and first of all to pay his debts.
Who acts: merchant · What happens: begin, settle, pay · To what, where: affairs, debts
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 (merchant), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 day | det |
| 2 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 day | amod |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 began | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 merchant | det |
| 5 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 began | nsubj |
| 6 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 settle | mark |
| 8 | settle | settle | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 began | xcomp |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 affairs | nmod:poss |
| 10 | affairs | affair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 settle | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 pay | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 pay | cc |
| 13 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 17 pay | advmod |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 all | case |
| 15 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 first | obl |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 pay | mark |
| 17 | pay | pay | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 began | parataxis |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 debts | nmod:poss |
| 19 | debts | debt | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 pay | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | the merchant | day | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | settle | to-infinitive | the merchant not said here | merchant's affairs | vn odge-46-1 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme affair=Location | ||||
| 3 | pay | to-infinitive | merchant's debts | first property | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent debt=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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