The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 27, sentence 42
She therefore desired one of her officers to take care of him and to treat him well.
Who acts: Badoura · What happens: desire, take, treat · To what, where: one, care, captain
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Badoura), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 desired | nsubj |
| 2 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 3 desired | advmod |
| 3 | desired | desire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 desired | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 officers | case |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 officers | nmod:poss |
| 7 | officers | officer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 one | nmod |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 take | mark |
| 9 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 desired | advcl |
| 10 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 take | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 him | case |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 take | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 treat | cc |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 treat | mark |
| 15 | treat | treat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 take | conj |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 treat | obj |
| 17 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 15 treat | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 desired | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | desire | past | Badoura | one of Badoura's officers | therefore property | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot one=Theme | |||
| 2 | take | to-infinitive | Badoura not said here | care | of captain | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent care=Theme of he=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | treat | to-infinitive | Badoura not said here | captain | well property | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent 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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