The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 28, sentence 92

Throughout one entire year Noureddin did nothing but amuse himself, and dissipate the wealth his father had taken such pains to acquire.

Who acts: Noureddin, father · What happens: do, amuse, dissipate, take, acquire · To what, where: nothing, vizir, wealth, such pains

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 (Noureddin, father), 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	Throughout	throughout	ADP	_	4 year	case
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 year	nummod
3	entire	entire	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 year	amod
4	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 did	obl
5	Noureddin	Noureddin	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 did	nsubj
6	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	6 did	obj
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 amuse	cc
9	amuse	amuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 did	conj
10	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	9 amuse	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 dissipate	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 dissipate	cc
13	dissipate	dissipate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 amuse	conj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 wealth	det
15	wealth	wealth	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 dissipate	obj
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 father	nmod:poss
17	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 taken	nsubj
18	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 taken	aux
19	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 dissipate	parataxis
20	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 pains	amod
21	pains	pain	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 taken	obj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 acquire	mark
23	acquire	acquire	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 taken	advcl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 did	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	do	past	Noureddin	nothing	year	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality
2	amuse	present	Noureddin not said here	vizir		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus himself=Experiencer
3	dissipate	infinitive	Noureddin not said here	the wealth		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent wealth=Patient
4	take	past · perfect	vizir's father	such pains		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pain=Theme
5	acquire	to-infinitive	vizir's father not said here			vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset

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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