The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 3, sentence 24

I got her some beautiful dresses, and after having married her, we embarked and set sail.

Who acts: I, we · What happens: get, have, marry, embark, set · To what, where: beautiful dresses, woman, sail

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, we), 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 got	nsubj
2	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 got	obj
4	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	6 dresses	det
5	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 dresses	amod
6	dresses	dress	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 got	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 married	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 married	cc
9	after	after	SCONJ	_	10 having	mark
10	having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 married	advcl
11	married	marry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 got	conj
12	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 married	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 embarked	punct
14	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 embarked	nsubj
15	embarked	embark	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 got	parataxis
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 set	cc
17	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 embarked	conj
18	sail	sail	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 set	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 got	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	get	past	I	some beautiful dresses	woman	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary dress=Theme
2	have	gerund				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	marry	past	I not said here	woman		vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient
4	embark	past	we			tree rules
5	set	past	we not said here	sail		vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient sail=Result

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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