The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 3, sentence 98

During the first period of my captivity I vowed that if anyone should free me before a hundred years were passed, I would make him rich even after his death.

Who acts: I, genius · What happens: vow, pass, make, die · To what, where: hundred years, genius

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, 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	During	during	ADP	_	4 period	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 period	det
3	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 period	amod
4	period	period	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 vowed	obl
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 captivity	case
6	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 captivity	nmod:poss
7	captivity	captivity	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 period	nmod
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 vowed	nsubj
9	vowed	vow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 free	mark
11	if	if	SCONJ	_	14 free	mark
12	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	14 free	nsubj
13	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 free	aux
14	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 vowed	ccomp
15	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 free	obl
16	before	before	SCONJ	_	21 passed	mark
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 years	det
18	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 years	nummod
19	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 passed	nsubj:pass
20	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 passed	aux:pass
21	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 free	advcl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 make	punct
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 make	nsubj
24	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 make	aux
25	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 vowed	conj
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 make	obj
27	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 make	xcomp
28	even	even	ADV	_	31 death	advmod
29	after	after	ADP	_	31 death	case
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 death	nmod:poss
31	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 make	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 vowed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	vow	past	I		during the first period of my captivity		tree rules
2	pass	past · passive		a hundred years			vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: subject=Trajectory
3	make	would	I	genius	after genius's death	rich property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Product
4	die		genius				nom death «event intransitive»: 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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