The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 20, sentence 42
When I have got ten thousand I will give up the glass trade and become a jeweller, and devote all my time to trading in pearls, diamonds, and other precious stones.
Who acts: I · What happens: get, give up, become, devote · To what, where: ten thousand, glass trade, jeweller
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 (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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 got | advmod |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 got | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 got | aux |
| 4 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 give | csubj |
| 5 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 thousand | compound |
| 6 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 got | obj |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 give | nsubj |
| 8 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 give | aux |
| 9 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | up | up | ADP | _ | 9 give | compound:prt |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 trade | det |
| 12 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 trade | compound |
| 13 | trade | trade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 give | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 become | cc |
| 15 | become | become | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 give | conj |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 jeweller | det |
| 17 | jeweller | jeweller | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 become | xcomp |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 devote | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 devote | cc |
| 20 | devote | devote | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 give | conj |
| 21 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 time | det:predet |
| 22 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 time | nmod:poss |
| 23 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 devote | obj |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 trading | mark |
| 25 | trading | trading | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 devote | advcl |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 pearls | case |
| 27 | pearls | pearl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 trading | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 diamonds | punct |
| 29 | diamonds | diamond | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 pearls | conj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 stones | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 stones | cc |
| 32 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 stones | amod |
| 33 | precious | precious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 stones | amod |
| 34 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 trading | conj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | present · perfect | I | ten thousand | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thousand=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | give up | future | I | the glass trade | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trade=Source | ||||
| 3 | become | infinitive | I not said here | a jeweller | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | devote | infinitive | I not said here | time | vn dedicate-79 «NP V NP S_ING»: 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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