The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 21, sentence 78

So my brother began at the beginning and related all his adventures, and how he had avenged himself on those who had betrayed him.

Who acts: brother, judge · What happens: begin, relate, avenge, betray, adventure · To what, where: beginning, adventures, judge, those

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brother, judge), 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 began	advmod
2	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 brother	nmod:poss
3	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 began	nsubj
4	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 beginning	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 beginning	det
7	beginning	beginning	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 began	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 related	cc
9	related	relate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 began	conj
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 adventures	det:predet
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 adventures	nmod:poss
12	adventures	adventure	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 related	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 avenged	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 avenged	cc
15	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	18 avenged	advmod
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 avenged	nsubj
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 avenged	aux
18	avenged	avenge	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 began	conj
19	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	18 avenged	obj
20	on	on	ADP	_	21 those	case
21	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	18 avenged	obl
22	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 betrayed	nsubj
23	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 betrayed	aux
24	betrayed	betray	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	21 those	acl:relcl
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 betrayed	obj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	begin	past	my brother			at the beginning	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	relate	past	my brother not said here	judge's adventures			vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent adventure=Theme
3	avenge	past · perfect	judge	judge	those		tree rules
4	betray	past · perfect		judge			tree rules
5	adventure		judge				nom adventure «act transitive»: poss=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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