The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 3, sentence 100

In the second century I vowed that I would give all the treasures in the world to my deliverer; but he never came.

Who acts: I, genius · What happens: vow, give, not come · To what, where: treasures, deliverer, world

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, genius), 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	In	in	ADP	_	4 century	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 century	det
3	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 century	amod
4	century	century	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 vowed	obl
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 vowed	nsubj
6	vowed	vow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 give	mark
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 give	nsubj
9	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 give	aux
10	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 vowed	ccomp
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 treasures	det:predet
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 treasures	det
13	treasures	treasure	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 give	obj
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 world	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 world	det
16	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 treasures	nmod
17	to	to	ADP	_	19 deliverer	case
18	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 deliverer	nmod:poss
19	deliverer	deliverer	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 give	obl
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 came	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 came	cc
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 came	nsubj
23	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	24 came	advmod
24	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 vowed	conj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 vowed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	vow	past	I				century	tree rules
2	give	would	I	all treasures	my deliverer	the world		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent treasure=Theme to deliverer=Recipient
3	not come	past	genius					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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