The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 21, sentence 95

My brother thanked them for their courtesy and entered the building, which was so large that it took him some time to reach the apartments of the Barmecide.

Who acts: brother, building, it · What happens: thank, enter, be, take, reach · To what, where: alms, building, Barmecide, apartments

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, building, it), 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	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 brother	nmod:poss
2	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 thanked	nsubj
3	thanked	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 thanked	obj
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 courtesy	case
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 courtesy	nmod:poss
7	courtesy	courtesy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 thanked	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 entered	cc
9	entered	enter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 thanked	conj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 building	det
11	building	building	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 entered	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 large	punct
13	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 large	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 large	cop
15	so	so	ADV	_	16 large	advmod
16	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 building	amod
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 took	mark
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 took	nsubj
19	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 large	advcl
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 took	obj
21	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	22 time	det
22	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 took	obj
23	to	to	PART	_	24 reach	mark
24	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 time	acl
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 apartments	det
26	apartments	apartment	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 reach	obj
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 Barmecide	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 Barmecide	det
29	Barmecide	barmecide	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 apartments	nmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 thanked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	thank speech: thank	past	My brother		alms = alm		for brother's courtesy	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent they=Theme for courtesy=Attribute
2	enter	past	My brother not said here	the building				vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme building=Destination
3	is	past	the building				large property	tree rules
4	take	past	it		Barmecide	time		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination
5	reach	to-infinitive		the apartments of the Barmecide				vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent apartment=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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