The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 26, sentence 70

It is clear that these riches are intended for you, and they are much more needed by a prince like yourself than by an old man like me, who am near my end and require nothing.

Who acts: prince, old man · What happens: be, intend, need, require · To what, where: riches, end, nothing

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 (prince, old man), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 clear	expl
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 clear	cop
3	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 intended	mark
5	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	6 riches	det
6	riches	rich	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 intended	nsubj:pass
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 intended	aux:pass
8	intended	intend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 clear	advcl
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 you	case
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 intended	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 needed	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 needed	cc
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 needed	nsubj:pass
14	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 needed	aux:pass
15	much	much	ADV	_	16 more	advmod
16	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	17 needed	advmod
17	needed	need	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 intended	conj
18	by	by	ADP	_	20 prince	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 prince	det
20	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 needed	obl
21	like	like	ADP	_	22 yourself	case
22	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	20 prince	nmod
23	than	than	ADP	_	27 man	case
24	by	by	ADP	_	27 man	case
25	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 man	det
26	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 man	amod
27	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 needed	obl
28	like	like	ADP	_	29 me	case
29	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 man	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 end	punct
31	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	35 end	nsubj
32	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 end	cop
33	near	near	ADP	_	35 end	case
34	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 end	nmod:poss
35	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 man	conj
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 require	cc
37	require	require	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 needed	conj
38	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	37 require	obj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 clear	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	present				clear property	tree rules
2	intend	present · passive		this riches		for you	vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic
3	need	present · passive	a prince like yourself	riches = rich		than a old man like me and my end	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot subject=Theme
4	is	present	a old man like me and my end		near my end		tree rules
5	require	present	a prince like yourself not said here	nothing			vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme nothing=Precondition

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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