The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 3, sentence 50

He ought to thank all three of you for having interested yourselves in his favour.

Who acts: genius · What happens: thank, have, favour · To what, where: three, favour

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), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 thank	nsubj
2	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 thank	aux
3	to	to	PART	_	4 thank	mark
4	thank	thank	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 three	det
6	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 thank	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 you	case
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 three	nmod
9	for	for	SCONJ	_	10 having	mark
10	having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 thank	advcl
11	interested	interested	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 having	xcomp
12	yourselves	yourselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	11 interested	nsubj
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 favour	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 favour	nmod:poss
15	favour	favour	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 having	obl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 thank	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	thank speech: thank	ought	genius	all three of you			vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent three=Theme
2	have	gerund	genius not said here		genius's favour	interested property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	favour		genius				nom favour «feeling 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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