The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 21, sentence 84
I then brought him back disguised, under cover of night, to my house, where I have since given him all the care I bestow on my other brothers.
Who acts: I · What happens: bring, disguise, give, bestow · To what, where: Alnaschar, cover, care
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 (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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 brought | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 brought | advmod |
| 3 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 brought | obj |
| 5 | back | back | ADV | _ | 6 disguised | advmod |
| 6 | disguised | disguise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 brought | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 cover | punct |
| 8 | under | under | ADP | _ | 9 cover | case |
| 9 | cover | cover | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 disguised | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 night | case |
| 11 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cover | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 house | punct |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 house | case |
| 14 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 house | nmod:poss |
| 15 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 disguised | parataxis |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 given | punct |
| 17 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 21 given | advmod |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 given | nsubj |
| 19 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 given | aux |
| 20 | since | since | ADV | _ | 21 given | advmod |
| 21 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 house | advcl |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 given | obj |
| 23 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 25 care | det:predet |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 care | det |
| 25 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 given | obj |
| 26 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 bestow | nsubj |
| 27 | bestow | bestow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 care | acl:relcl |
| 28 | on | on | ADP | _ | 31 brothers | case |
| 29 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 30 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 brothers | amod |
| 31 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 bestow | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | past | I | Alnaschar | then | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination | |||
| 2 | disguise | past | I not said here | cover of night | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme cover=Destination | ||||
| 3 | give | present · perfect | I | all care | Alnaschar | since property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient care=Theme | ||
| 4 | bestow | present | I | all care not said here | on my other brothers | tree rules |
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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