The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 3, sentence 101

"In the third, I promised to make him a king, to be always near him, and to grant him three wishes every day; but that century passed away as the other two had done, and I remained in the same plight.

Who acts: genius, century, other two · What happens: promise, make, be, grant, pass away, do · To what, where: king, genius, three wishes, same plight

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 (genius, century, other two), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 third	punct
2	In	in	ADP	_	4 third	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 third	det
4	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 promised	punct
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 promised	nsubj
7	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 third	advcl
8	to	to	PART	_	9 make	mark
9	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 promised	xcomp
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 make	obj
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 king	det
12	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 make	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 him	punct
14	to	to	PART	_	18 him	mark
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 him	cop
16	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	18 him	advmod
17	near	near	ADP	_	18 him	case
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 make	parataxis
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 grant	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 grant	cc
21	to	to	PART	_	22 grant	mark
22	grant	grant	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	7 promised	conj
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 grant	obj
24	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 wishes	nummod
25	wishes	wish	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 grant	obj
26	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	27 day	det
27	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 wishes	nmod:unmarked
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 passed	punct
29	but	but	CCONJ	_	32 passed	cc
30	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	31 century	det
31	century	century	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 passed	nsubj
32	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 third	conj
33	away	away	ADV	_	32 passed	advmod
34	as	as	SCONJ	_	39 done	mark
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 two	det
36	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 two	amod
37	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	39 done	nsubj
38	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 done	aux
39	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	32 passed	advcl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 remained	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 remained	cc
42	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	43 remained	nsubj
43	remained	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 third	conj
44	in	in	ADP	_	47 plight	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 plight	det
46	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 plight	amod
47	plight	plight	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 remained	obl
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 third	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	promise speech: promise in a quote	past	the genius = genius					vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	make not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	the genius = genius not said here	a king	genius			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset he=Beneficiary king=Product
3	is in a quote	to-infinitive					near genius; always property	tree rules
4	grant in a quote	to-infinitive	the genius = genius not said here	three wishes every day	genius			vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent he=Goal wish=Theme
5	pass away in a quote	past	that century				away property	vn die-42.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
6	do in a quote	past · perfect	the other two					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	remain in a quote	past	the genius = genius			the same plight		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in plight=Location

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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