The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 29, sentence 3

First then he sold the slaves, and subsisted for a time on the proceeds, after that the furniture was sold, and as much of it was valuable it sufficed for some time.

Who acts: resource, much, furniture · What happens: sell, subsist, be, suffice · To what, where: slaves, furniture

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (resource, much, furniture), 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	First	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 sold	advmod
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 sold	advmod
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sold	nsubj
4	sold	sell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 slaves	det
6	slaves	slave	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 sold	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 subsisted	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 subsisted	cc
9	subsisted	subsist	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 sold	conj
10	for	for	ADP	_	12 time	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 time	det
12	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 subsisted	obl
13	on	on	ADP	_	15 proceeds	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 proceeds	det
15	proceeds	proceed	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 time	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 sold	punct
17	after	after	SCONJ	_	22 sold	mark
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 sold	mark
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 furniture	det
20	furniture	furniture	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 sold	nsubj:pass
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 sold	aux:pass
22	sold	sell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 subsisted	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 valuable	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 valuable	cc
25	as	as	ADV	_	26 much	advmod
26	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 valuable	nsubj
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 it	case
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 much	nmod
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 valuable	cop
30	valuable	valuable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 sold	conj
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 sufficed	nsubj
32	sufficed	suffice	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 valuable	acl:relcl
33	for	for	ADP	_	35 time	case
34	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	35 time	det
35	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 sufficed	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sold	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	sell	past	resource	the slaves	then	first property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent slave=Theme
2	subsist	participle	resource not said here		time		vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent
3	sell	past · passive		the furniture			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
4	is	past	much of furniture			valuable property	tree rules
5	suffice	past	furniture		time		tree rules

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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