The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 20, sentence 32

Instead of working for his bread he was not ashamed to ask for it every evening, and to support himself next day on what he had received the night before.

Who acts: Alnaschar · What happens: work, not be, ask, support, receive · To what, where: Alnaschar

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Alnaschar), 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	Instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=SCONJ	3 working	mark
2	of	of	ADP	_	1 Instead	fixed
3	working	work	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 ashamed	advcl
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 bread	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 bread	nmod:poss
6	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 working	obl
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 ashamed	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 ashamed	cop
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 ashamed	advmod
10	ashamed	ashamed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
11	to	to	PART	_	12 ask	mark
12	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 ashamed	xcomp
13	for	for	ADP	_	14 it	case
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 ask	obl
15	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	16 evening	det
16	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 ask	obl:unmarked
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 support	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 support	cc
19	to	to	PART	_	20 support	mark
20	support	support	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 ashamed	conj
21	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	20 support	obj
22	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 day	amod
23	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 support	obl:unmarked
24	on	on	ADP	_	25 what	case
25	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 support	obl
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 received	nsubj
27	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 received	aux
28	received	receive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	25 what	acl:relcl
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 night	det
30	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 received	obl:unmarked
31	before	before	ADV	_	28 received	advmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 ashamed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	work	gerund	Alnaschar not said here			for Alnaschar's bread	vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for bread=Beneficiary
2	not is	past	Alnaschar			ashamed property	tree rules
3	ask speech: ask	to-infinitive	Alnaschar not said here		evening	for bread	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	support	to-infinitive	Alnaschar not said here	Alnaschar	day		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer himself=Stimulus
5	receive	past · perfect	Alnaschar		night	before property	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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