The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 3, sentence 54

The merchant returned to his wife and children, and passed the rest of his days happily with them.

Who acts: merchant · What happens: return, pass · To what, where: rest

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 (merchant), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 merchant	det
2	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 returned	nsubj
3	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 wife	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 wife	nmod:poss
6	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 returned	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 children	cc
8	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 wife	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 passed	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 passed	cc
11	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 returned	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 rest	det
13	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 passed	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 days	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 days	nmod:poss
16	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 rest	nmod
17	happily	happily	ADV	_	11 passed	advmod
18	with	with	ADP	_	19 them	case
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 passed	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 returned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	return	past	the merchant					to genius's wife and children result	vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to wife=Result
2	pass	past	the merchant not said here	the rest of genius's days				with merchant; happily property	vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme rest=Trajectory

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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