The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 27, sentence 92

Saouy was quite a different character, and repelled everyone with whom he came in contact; he was always gloomy, and, in spite of his great riches, so miserly that he denied himself even the necessaries of life.

Who acts: Saouy, different character, spite · What happens: be, repel, come, deny, spite · To what, where: different character, everyone, contact, Saouy, great riches

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 (Saouy, different character, 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Saouy	Saouy	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 character	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 character	cop
3	quite	quite	DET	PronType=Ind	6 character	det:predet
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 character	det
5	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 character	amod
6	character	character	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 repelled	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 repelled	cc
9	repelled	repel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 character	acl:relcl
10	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	9 repelled	obj
11	with	with	ADP	_	12 whom	case
12	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 repelled	obl
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 came	nsubj
14	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 whom	acl:relcl
15	in	in	ADP	_	16 contact	case
16	contact	contact	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 came	obl
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 gloomy	punct
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 gloomy	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 gloomy	cop
20	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	21 gloomy	advmod
21	gloomy	gloomy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 character	amod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 miserly	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 miserly	cc
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 spite	punct
25	in	in	ADP	_	26 spite	case
26	spite	spite	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 miserly	nsubj
27	of	of	ADP	_	30 riches	case
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 riches	nmod:poss
29	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 riches	amod
30	riches	rich	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 spite	nmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 miserly	punct
32	so	so	ADV	_	33 miserly	advmod
33	miserly	miserly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 gloomy	conj
34	that	that	SCONJ	_	36 denied	mark
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 denied	nsubj
36	denied	deny	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 miserly	advcl
37	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	36 denied	obj
38	even	even	ADV	_	40 necessaries	advmod
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 necessaries	det
40	necessaries	necessary	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 denied	obj
41	of	of	ADP	_	42 life	case
42	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 necessaries	nmod
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 character	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Saouy	quite different character			tree rules
2	repel	past	quite different character not said here	everyone		with quite different character	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus everyone=Experiencer
3	come	past	Saouy		contact		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in contact=Location
4	is	past	Saouy			always, gloomy property	tree rules
5	be		spite of spite's great riches				tree rules
6	deny	past	Saouy	Saouy			vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme necessary=Eventuality
7	spite			spite's great riches			nom spite «feeling transitive»: of=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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