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The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 27, sentence 5

They belong to a merchant who was left behind, as in spite of waiting for him he delayed so long that I was obliged to set sail without him."

Who acts: olives, spite · What happens: belong, leave behind, wait, delay, oblige, set · To what, where: merchant, I, sail

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 (olives, spite), 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

nsubjcasedetoblnsubjaux:passacl:relcladvmodpunctcasecasensubjmarkaclcaseoblnsubjparataxisadvmodxcompmarknsubjaux:passadvclmarkxcompobjcaseoblpunctpunctrootTheyPRONbelongVERBtoADPaDETmerchantNOUNwhoPRONwasAUXleftVERBbehindADV,PUNCTasADPinADPspiteNOUNofSCONJwaitingVERBforADPhimPRONhePRONdelayedVERBsoADVlongADJthatSCONJIPRONwasAUXobligedVERBtoPARTsetVERBsailNOUNwithoutADPhimPRON.PUNCT"PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1TheytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs2 belongnsubj
2belongbelongVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Finrootroot
3totoADP_5 merchantcase
4aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art5 merchantdet
5merchantmerchantNOUNNumber=Sing2 belongobl
6whowhoPRONPronType=Rel8 leftnsubj
7wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin8 leftaux:pass
8leftleaveVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass5 merchantacl:relcl
9behindbehindADV_8 leftadvmod
10,,PUNCT_13 spitepunct
11asasADP_13 spitecase
12ininADP_13 spitecase
13spitespiteNOUNNumber=Sing19 delayednsubj
14ofofSCONJ_15 waitingmark
15waitingwaitVERBVerbForm=Ger13 spiteacl
16forforADP_17 himcase
17himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs15 waitingobl
18hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs19 delayednsubj
19delayeddelayVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin2 belongparataxis
20sosoADV_21 longadvmod
21longlongADJDegree=Pos19 delayedxcomp
22thatthatSCONJ_25 obligedmark
23IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs25 obligednsubj
24wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin25 obligedaux:pass
25obligedobligeVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass21 longadvcl
26totoPART_27 setmark
27setsetVERBVerbForm=Inf25 obligedxcomp
28sailsailNOUNNumber=Sing27 setobj
29withoutwithoutADP_30 himcase
30himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs27 setobl
31..PUNCT_2 belongpunct
32""PUNCT_2 belongpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1belongpresentolives = oliveto a merchantvn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme
2leave behindpast · passivea merchantbehind propertyvn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3waitgerundspite not said herefor spitevn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4delaypastspitelong propertyvn delay-53.3-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
5obligepast · passiveIvn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result
6setto-infinitivesailwithout spitevn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient sail=Result

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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