The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 3, sentence 11
I took care of him, and as I had a thousand sequins to spare I gave them to him, and he re-opened his shop.
Who acts: I, brother · What happens: take, have, spare, give, re-open, care · To what, where: care, thousand sequins, sequins, shop
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, brother), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 took | nsubj |
| 2 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 took | obj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 him | case |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 care | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 had | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 had | cc |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 had | mark |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 had | nsubj |
| 10 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 took | conj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 thousand | det |
| 12 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 sequins | nummod |
| 13 | sequins | sequin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 had | obj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 spare | mark |
| 15 | spare | spare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 had | advcl |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 gave | nsubj |
| 17 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 spare | ccomp |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 gave | iobj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 him | case |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 gave | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 re-opened | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 re-opened | cc |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 re-opened | nsubj |
| 24 | re-opened | re-open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 took | conj |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 shop | nmod:poss |
| 26 | shop | shop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 re-opened | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | I | care of brother | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme | ||||
| 2 | have | past | I | thousand sequins | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sequin=Patient | ||||
| 3 | spare | to-infinitive | I not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | give | past | I | sequins = sequin | to brother | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Theme to he=Recipient | |||
| 5 | re-open | past | brother | brother's shop | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | care | brother | nom care «act intransitive»: of=agent |
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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