The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 22, sentence 19

They even despoiled my brother of those that rightly belonged to him, and he, now as poor as he had ever been in his life, decided to cast in his lot with a caravan of pilgrims who were on their way to Mecca.

Who acts: possessions, brother, pilgrims · What happens: despoil, belong, be, decide, cast · To what, where: brother, life, lot, Mecca, way

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (possessions, brother, pilgrims), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 despoiled	nsubj
2	even	even	ADV	_	3 despoiled	advmod
3	despoiled	despoil	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 brother	nmod:poss
5	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 despoiled	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 those	case
7	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	5 brother	nmod
8	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 belonged	nsubj
9	rightly	rightly	ADV	_	10 belonged	advmod
10	belonged	belong	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 brother	acl:relcl
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 him	case
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 belonged	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 poor	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 poor	cc
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 poor	nsubj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 poor	punct
17	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	19 poor	advmod
18	as	as	ADV	_	19 poor	advmod
19	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 despoiled	parataxis
20	as	as	SCONJ	_	27 life	mark
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 life	nsubj
22	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 life	aux
23	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	27 life	advmod
24	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	27 life	cop
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 life	case
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 life	nmod:poss
27	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 poor	advcl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 decided	punct
29	decided	decide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 despoiled	conj
30	to	to	PART	_	31 cast	mark
31	cast	cast	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 decided	xcomp
32	in	in	ADP	_	34 lot	case
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 lot	nmod:poss
34	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 cast	obl
35	with	with	ADP	_	37 caravan	case
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 caravan	det
37	caravan	caravan	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 lot	nmod
38	of	of	ADP	_	39 pilgrims	case
39	pilgrims	pilgrim	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 caravan	nmod
40	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	44 way	nsubj
41	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 way	cop
42	on	on	ADP	_	44 way	case
43	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 way	nmod:poss
44	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 pilgrims	acl:relcl
45	to	to	ADP	_	46 Mecca	case
46	Mecca	Mecca	PROPN	Number=Sing	44 way	nmod
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 despoiled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	despoil	past	possessions = possession	my brother of those					vn deprive-10.6.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Source
2	belong	past	my brother of those		brother			rightly property	vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme
3	is	past · perfect	brother			brother's life	ever		tree rules
4	decide	past	possessions = possession not said here						vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	cast not said to happen	to-infinitive	possessions = possession not said here			brother's lot with a caravan of pilgrims			vn throw-17.1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent in lot=Destination
6	is	past	pilgrims		Mecca	possessions's way			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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