The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 20, sentence 51

This being done (as I have every reason to expect), two of my servants will enter, each bearing a purse containing a thousand pieces of gold.

Who acts: I, two, each · What happens: do, have, expect, enter, bear, contain · To what, where: This, reason, purse, thousand pieces

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, two, each), 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	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 done	nsubj:pass
2	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 done	aux:pass
3	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	(	(	PUNCT	_	7 have	punct
5	as	as	SCONJ	_	7 have	mark
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 have	nsubj
7	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 done	ccomp
8	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	9 reason	det
9	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 have	obj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 expect	mark
11	expect	expect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 reason	acl
12	)	)	PUNCT	_	7 have	punct
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 two	punct
14	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 enter	nsubj
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 servants	case
16	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 servants	nmod:poss
17	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 two	nmod
18	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 enter	aux
19	enter	enter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 done	parataxis
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 bearing	punct
21	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	22 bearing	nsubj
22	bearing	bear	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 done	advcl
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 purse	det
24	purse	purse	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 bearing	obj
25	containing	contain	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	22 bearing	conj
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 thousand	det
27	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 pieces	nummod
28	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 containing	obj
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 gold	case
30	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 pieces	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 done	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	gerund · passive		This	tree rules
2	have	present	I	every reason	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reason=Patient
3	expect	to-infinitive	I not said here	every reason not said here	vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	enter	future	two of my servants		vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	bear	gerund	each	a purse	vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent purse=Patient
6	contain	gerund	each not said here	thousand pieces of gold	vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot piece=Theme

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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