The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 2, sentence 49
He set his slaves at liberty, and provided for his wife and children.
Who acts: merchant · What happens: set, provide · To what, where: slaves, liberty
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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 set | nsubj |
| 2 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 slaves | nmod:poss |
| 4 | slaves | slave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 set | obj |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 liberty | case |
| 6 | liberty | liberty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 set | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 provided | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 provided | cc |
| 9 | provided | provide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 set | parataxis |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 wife | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 wife | nmod:poss |
| 12 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 provided | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 children | cc |
| 14 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 wife | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set | past | merchant | merchant's slaves | liberty | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent slave=Theme at liberty=Destination | |||
| 2 | provide | past | for merchant's wife and children | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-2 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent for wife=Recipient |
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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