The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 22, sentence 59
As for the barber, he bestowed on him a large pension, and kept him near his own person.
Who acts: barber · What happens: bestow, keep · To what, where: large pension, history
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 (barber), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg128:1849): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | As | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 4 barber | case |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 1 As | fixed |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 barber | det |
| 4 | barber | barber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bestowed | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 barber | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 bestowed | nsubj |
| 7 | bestowed | bestow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 him | case |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 bestowed | obl |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 pension | det |
| 11 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 pension | amod |
| 12 | pension | pension | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bestowed | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 kept | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 kept | cc |
| 15 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 bestowed | conj |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 kept | obj |
| 17 | near | near | ADP | _ | 20 person | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 person | nmod:poss |
| 19 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 person | amod |
| 20 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 kept | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 bestowed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bestow | past | barber | a large pension | as the barber; on history | tree rules | |||
| 2 | keep | past | barber not said here | history | near history's own person | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Theme near person=Location |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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