The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 28, sentence 1

Being a man of great wisdom and learning, he perceived in the short conversation he had with her that he would seek in vain another slave to surpass her in any of the qualities required by the king, and therefore asked the dealer what price the merchant put upon her.

Who acts: man, merchant · What happens: be, perceive, have, seek, surpass, require · To what, where: man, short conversation, slave, vain, her, qualities

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, merchant), 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	Being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 man	cop
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 man	det
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 perceived	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 wisdom	case
5	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 wisdom	amod
6	wisdom	wisdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 man	nmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 learning	cc
8	learning	learning	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wisdom	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 man	punct
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 perceived	nsubj
11	perceived	perceive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	in	in	ADP	_	15 conversation	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 conversation	det
14	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 conversation	amod
15	conversation	conversation	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 perceived	obl
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 had	nsubj
17	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 perceived	conj
18	with	with	ADP	_	19 her	case
19	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 had	obl
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 seek	mark
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 seek	nsubj
22	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 seek	aux
23	seek	seek	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 had	advcl
24	in	in	ADP	_	25 vain	case
25	vain	vain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 seek	obl
26	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	27 slave	det
27	slave	slave	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 seek	obj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 surpass	mark
29	surpass	surpass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 seek	advcl
30	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 surpass	obj
31	in	in	ADP	_	32 any	case
32	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	29 surpass	obl
33	of	of	ADP	_	35 qualities	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 qualities	det
35	qualities	quality	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 any	nmod
36	required	require	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	35 qualities	acl
37	by	by	ADP	_	39 king	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 king	det
39	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 required	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 asked	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 asked	cc
42	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	43 asked	advmod
43	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 perceived	parataxis
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 dealer	det
45	dealer	dealer	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 asked	obj
46	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	50 put	obj
47	price	price	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 what	nsubj
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 merchant	det
49	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 put	nsubj
50	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 asked	conj
51	upon	upon	ADP	_	52 her	case
52	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 put	obl
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 perceived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	gerund		a man		of great wisdom and learning	tree rules
2	perceive	past	a man		the short conversation		vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3	have	past	man			with her = she	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	seek	would	man	another slave	vain		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent slave=Theme in vain=Location
5	surpass	to-infinitive	man not said here	her = she		in any	vn exceed-90 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot she=Theme in any=Attribute
6	require	participle		the qualities not said here		by the king	vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Theme
7	ask speech: ask	past		the dealer		therefore property	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent dealer=Recipient
8	put	past	the merchant			upon price	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme upon she=Destination

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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