The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 27, sentence 90
Khacan was kind, generous, and liberal, and took pleasure in obliging, as far as in him lay, those who had business with him.
Who acts: Khacan · What happens: be, take, oblige, lay, have · To what, where: pleasure, those, business
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 (Khacan), 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 | Khacan | Khacan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 kind | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 kind | cop |
| 3 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 generous | punct |
| 5 | generous | generous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 kind | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 liberal | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 liberal | cc |
| 8 | liberal | liberal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 kind | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 took | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 took | cc |
| 11 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 kind | parataxis |
| 12 | pleasure | pleasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 took | obj |
| 13 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 14 obliging | mark |
| 14 | obliging | oblige | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 took | advcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 far | punct |
| 16 | as | as | ADV | _ | 17 far | advmod |
| 17 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 obliging | advmod |
| 18 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 21 lay | mark |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 him | case |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 lay | obl |
| 21 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 far | advcl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 those | punct |
| 23 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 14 obliging | obl |
| 24 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 had | nsubj |
| 25 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 those | acl:relcl |
| 26 | business | business | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 had | obj |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 him | case |
| 28 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 business | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 kind | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Khacan | kind property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | Khacan not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | be | Khacan not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | take | past | pleasure | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pleasure=Theme | |||||
| 5 | oblige | gerund | those | far property | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | lay | present | in Balsora | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in he=Destination | |||||
| 7 | have | past | business | with Balsora | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent business=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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