The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 29, sentence 63
Being very avaricious, Scheih Ibrahim determined to spend only the tenth part of the money and to keep the rest to himself.
Who acts: Scheih Ibrahim · What happens: be, determine, spend, keep · To what, where: tenth part, rest, Ibrahim
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 (Scheih Ibrahim), 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 avaricious | cop |
| 2 | very | very | ADV | _ | 3 avaricious | advmod |
| 3 | avaricious | avaricious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 determined | punct |
| 5 | Scheih | Scheih | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Ibrahim | compound |
| 6 | Ibrahim | Ibrahim | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 determined | nsubj |
| 7 | determined | determine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 avaricious | conj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 spend | mark |
| 9 | spend | spend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 determined | xcomp |
| 10 | only | only | ADV | _ | 13 part | advmod |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 part | det |
| 12 | tenth | tenth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 part | amod |
| 13 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 spend | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 money | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 money | det |
| 16 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 part | nmod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 keep | cc |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 keep | mark |
| 19 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 spend | conj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 rest | det |
| 21 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 keep | obj |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 himself | case |
| 23 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 19 keep | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 avaricious | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | gerund | avaricious property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | determine | past | Scheih Ibrahim | vn discover-84 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | spend | to-infinitive | Scheih Ibrahim not said here | the tenth part of the money | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Asset | ||||
| 4 | keep | to-infinitive | Scheih Ibrahim not said here | the rest | Ibrahim | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rest=Theme |
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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