The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 26, sentence 65
He then led the gardener to the cave, and having shown him the treasure stored up there, said how happy it made him that Heaven should in this way reward his kind host's many virtues and compensate him for the privations of many years.
Who acts: fortune, treasure, Heaven · What happens: lead, show, store up, say, make, reward · To what, where: gardener, cave, treasure, fortune, many virtues, way · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fortune, treasure, Heaven), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 led | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 led | advmod |
| 3 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 gardener | det |
| 5 | gardener | gardener | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 led | obj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 cave | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 cave | det |
| 8 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 led | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 shown | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 shown | cc |
| 11 | having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 shown | aux |
| 12 | shown | show | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 led | conj |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 shown | obj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 treasure | det |
| 15 | treasure | treasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 shown | obj |
| 16 | stored | store | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 treasure | acl |
| 17 | up | up | ADP | _ | 16 stored | compound:prt |
| 18 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 stored | advmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 said | punct |
| 20 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 led | conj |
| 21 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 22 happy | advmod |
| 22 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 said | xcomp |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 made | nsubj |
| 24 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 said | ccomp |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 made | obj |
| 26 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 32 reward | mark |
| 27 | Heaven | Heaven | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 reward | nsubj |
| 28 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 reward | aux |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 way | case |
| 30 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 31 way | det |
| 31 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 reward | obl |
| 32 | reward | reward | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 made | advcl |
| 33 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 host | nmod:poss |
| 34 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 host | amod |
| 35 | host | host | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 virtues | nmod:poss |
| 36 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 35 host | case |
| 37 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 virtues | amod |
| 38 | virtues | virtue | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 reward | obj |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 compensate | cc |
| 40 | compensate | compensate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 reward | conj |
| 41 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 compensate | obj |
| 42 | for | for | ADP | _ | 44 privations | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 privations | det |
| 44 | privations | privation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 compensate | obl |
| 45 | of | of | ADP | _ | 47 years | case |
| 46 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 years | amod |
| 47 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 44 privations | nmod |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 led | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lead | past | fortune | the gardener | the cave | then | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent gardener=Theme to cave=Destination | ||
| 2 | show | gerund · perfect | fortune not said here | the treasure | fortune | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient treasure=Topic | |||
| 3 | store up | participle | the treasure not said here | there | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | fortune not said here | happy property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | make | past | treasure | fortune | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material he=Product | ||||
| 6 | reward | should | Heaven | fortune's kind host's many virtues | this way | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent virtue=Recipient | |||
| 7 | compensate | infinitive | Heaven not said here | fortune | for the privations of many years | vn equip-13.4.2-1-1 «NP.theme V NP»: agent=Theme he=Recipient |
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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