The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 20, sentence 35

After reflecting upon the matter for some time he decided to lay it out on glasses, bottles, and things of that sort, which he would buy from a wholesale merchant.

Who acts: Alnaschar, sort · What happens: reflect, decide, lay out, buy · To what, where: things, time, matter, glasses, wholesale merchant

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, sort), 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	After	after	SCONJ	_	2 reflecting	mark
2	reflecting	reflect	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	upon	upon	ADP	_	5 matter	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 matter	det
5	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 reflecting	obl
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 time	case
7	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	8 time	det
8	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 reflecting	obl
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 decided	nsubj
10	decided	decide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 time	acl:relcl
11	to	to	PART	_	12 lay	mark
12	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 decided	xcomp
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 lay	obj
14	out	out	ADP	_	12 lay	compound:prt
15	on	on	ADP	_	16 glasses	case
16	glasses	glass	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 lay	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 bottles	punct
18	bottles	bottle	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 glasses	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 things	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 things	cc
21	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 reflecting	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 sort	case
23	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	24 sort	det
24	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 things	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 buy	punct
26	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 buy	nsubj
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 buy	nsubj
28	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 buy	aux
29	buy	buy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 sort	acl:relcl
30	from	from	ADP	_	33 merchant	case
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 merchant	det
32	wholesale	wholesale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 merchant	amod
33	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 buy	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 things	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reflect	gerund		things of that sort		time	upon the matter	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	decide	past	Alnaschar	some time not said here				vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.co-agent that S»: agent=Agent time=Co-Agent clause=Topic
3	lay out not said to happen	to-infinitive	Alnaschar not said here	matter	glasses and bottles			vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme on glass=Destination
4	buy	would	that sort		a wholesale merchant			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from merchant=Source

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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