The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 3, sentence 16

But when they had made their preparation, and they began to buy the merchandise we needed, they found they had spent every piece of the thousand sequins I had given them.

Who acts: journey, we, I · What happens: make, begin, buy, need, find, spend · To what, where: preparation, merchandise, piece, journey · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (journey, we, I), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 made	cc
2	when	when	SCONJ	_	5 made	mark
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 made	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 made	aux
5	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 preparation	nmod:poss
7	preparation	preparation	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 made	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 began	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 began	cc
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 began	nsubj
11	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 made	parataxis
12	to	to	PART	_	13 buy	mark
13	buy	buy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 began	xcomp
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 merchandise	det
15	merchandise	merchandise	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 buy	obj
16	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 needed	nsubj
17	needed	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 merchandise	acl:relcl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 found	punct
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 found	nsubj
20	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 began	conj
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 spent	nsubj
22	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 spent	aux
23	spent	spend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	20 found	ccomp
24	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	25 piece	det
25	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 spent	obj
26	of	of	ADP	_	29 sequins	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 sequins	det
28	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 sequins	nummod
29	sequins	sequin	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 piece	nmod
30	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 given	nsubj
31	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 given	aux
32	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	23 spent	parataxis
33	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 given	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	make	past · perfect	journey	journey's preparation	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset preparation=Product
2	begin	past	journey		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	buy	to-infinitive	journey not said here	the merchandise	vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent merchandise=Theme
4	need	past	we	the merchandise not said here	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot merchandise=Theme
5	find	past	journey		vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
6	spend	past · perfect	journey	every piece of the thousand sequins	vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Asset
7	give	past · perfect	I	journey	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
8	prepare		journey		nom preparation «act transitive»: poss=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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