The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 26, sentence 94

As he could not well cultivate the garden by himself, he engaged a lad to help him, and to secure the rest of the treasure he put the remaining gold dust into fifty more jars, filling them up with olives so as to have them ready for transport.

Who acts: man · What happens: not cultivate, engage, help, secure, put, fill up · To what, where: garden, lad, man, rest, remaining gold dust, jars

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 (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	As	as	SCONJ	_	6 cultivate	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 cultivate	nsubj
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 cultivate	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 cultivate	advmod
5	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 cultivate	advmod
6	cultivate	cultivate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 engaged	advcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 garden	det
8	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cultivate	obj
9	by	by	ADP	_	10 himself	case
10	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	6 cultivate	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 cultivate	punct
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 engaged	nsubj
13	engaged	engage	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 lad	det
15	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 engaged	obj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 help	mark
17	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 lad	acl
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 help	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 secure	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 secure	cc
21	to	to	PART	_	22 secure	mark
22	secure	secure	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 engaged	conj
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 rest	det
24	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 secure	obj
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 treasure	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 treasure	det
27	treasure	treasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 rest	nmod
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 put	nsubj
29	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 treasure	acl:relcl
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 dust	det
31	remaining	remaining	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 dust	amod
32	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 dust	compound
33	dust	dust	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 put	obj
34	into	into	ADP	_	37 jars	case
35	fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	37 jars	nummod
36	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	37 jars	amod
37	jars	jar	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 secure	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 filling	punct
39	filling	fill	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 secure	advcl
40	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 filling	obj
41	up	up	ADP	_	39 filling	compound:prt
42	with	with	ADP	_	43 olives	case
43	olives	olive	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 filling	obl
44	so	so	ADV	_	47 have	advmod
45	as	as	SCONJ	_	47 have	mark
46	to	to	PART	_	47 have	mark
47	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 filling	advcl
48	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 have	obj
49	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 have	xcomp
50	for	for	ADP	_	51 transport	case
51	transport	transport	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 ready	obl
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 engaged	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	not cultivate	could	man	the garden		by man; well property	vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent garden=Product
2	engage	past	man	a lad			vn amalgamate-22.2-3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lad=Patient
3	help	to-infinitive	man not said here	a lad not said here	man		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary
4	secure	to-infinitive	man not said here	the rest of the treasure		into fifty more jars	vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent rest=Patient into jar=Co-Patient
5	put	past	man	the remaining gold dust			vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent dust=Goal
6	fill up	gerund	man not said here	jars = jar		with olives	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent they=Patient with olive=Instrument
7	have	to-infinitive	man not said here	jars = jar		ready property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient

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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