The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 3, sentence 58

He went every day to fish very early, and each day he made a rule not to throw his nets more than four times.

Who acts: sire · What happens: go, make, not throw · To what, where: rule, nets

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 (sire), 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	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	4 day	det
4	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 went	obl:unmarked
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 fish	case
6	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 went	obl
7	very	very	ADV	_	8 early	advmod
8	early	early	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 went	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 made	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 made	cc
11	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	12 day	det
12	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 made	obl:unmarked
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 made	nsubj
14	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	parataxis
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 rule	det
16	rule	rule	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 made	obj
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 throw	advmod
18	to	to	PART	_	19 throw	mark
19	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 made	advcl
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 nets	nmod:poss
21	nets	net	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 throw	obj
22	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV	24 four	advmod
23	than	than	ADP	_	22 more	fixed
24	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 times	nummod
25	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 throw	obl:unmarked
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	sire		day	to fish; early property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to fish=Initial_Location
2	make	past	sire	a rule	day		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rule=Product
3	not throw	to-infinitive	sire not said here	sire's nets	time		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent net=Theme

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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