The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 2, sentence 78

We have no children of our own, therefore I adopted the son of a favorite slave, and determined to make him my heir.

Who acts: We, I · What happens: have, adopt, make · To what, where: children, son, heir, man

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, I), 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	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 have	nsubj
2	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 children	det
4	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 have	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 own	case
6	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 own	nmod:poss
7	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 children	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 adopted	punct
9	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	11 adopted	advmod
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 adopted	nsubj
11	adopted	adopt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 have	parataxis
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 son	det
13	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 adopted	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	17 slave	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 slave	det
16	favorite	favorite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 slave	amod
17	slave	slave	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 son	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 determined	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 determined	cc
20	determined	determined	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 adopted	conj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 make	mark
22	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 determined	xcomp
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 make	obj
24	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 heir	nmod:poss
25	heir	heir	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 make	obj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	have	present	We	no children of our own			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient
2	adopt	past	I	the son of a favorite slave		therefore property	vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Theme
3	make	to-infinitive	I not said here	my heir	man		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset he=Beneficiary heir=Product

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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