The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 3, sentence 7
Some time afterwards my second brother wished also to sell his business and travel.
Who acts: second brother · What happens: wish, sell · To what, where: business
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 (second brother), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 time | det |
| 2 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 wished | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | afterwards | afterwards | ADV | _ | 7 wished | advmod |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 brother | nmod:poss |
| 5 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 6 brother | amod |
| 6 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 wished | nsubj |
| 7 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | also | also | ADV | _ | 10 sell | advmod |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 sell | mark |
| 10 | sell | sell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 wished | xcomp |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 business | nmod:poss |
| 12 | business | business | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sell | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 travel | cc |
| 14 | travel | travel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 business | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 wished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wish | past | my second brother | time | afterwards property | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||
| 2 | sell not said to happen | to-infinitive | my second brother not said here | brother's business and travel | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent business=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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