The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 30, sentence 36

The Caliph then gave this letter to Noureddin, who immediately set off, with only what little money he possessed when Sangiar came to his assistance.

Who acts: Caliph, letter, money, Sangiar · What happens: give, set off, possess, come, assist · To what, where: letter, Noureddin, little money, assistance

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Caliph, letter, money, Sangiar), 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 Caliph	det
2	Caliph	Caliph	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 gave	nsubj
3	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 gave	advmod
4	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 letter	det
6	letter	letter	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gave	obj
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 Noureddin	case
8	Noureddin	Noureddin	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 letter	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 set	punct
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 set	nsubj
11	immediately	immediately	ADV	_	12 set	advmod
12	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 letter	acl:relcl
13	off	off	ADP	_	12 set	compound:prt
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 what	punct
15	with	with	ADP	_	17 what	case
16	only	only	ADV	_	17 what	advmod
17	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 gave	parataxis
18	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 money	amod
19	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 what	nsubj
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 possessed	nsubj
21	possessed	possess	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 money	acl:relcl
22	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	24 came	advmod
23	Sangiar	Sangiar	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 came	nsubj
24	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 possessed	advcl
25	to	to	ADP	_	27 assistance	case
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 assistance	nmod:poss
27	assistance	assistance	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 came	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	the Caliph	this letter	Noureddin		then		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent letter=Theme to noureddin=Recipient
2	set off	present	this letter					immediately property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	possess	past	money	little money not said here					vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot money=Theme
4	come	past	Sangiar			Sangiar's assistance			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to assistance=Initial_Location
5	assist		Sangiar						nom assistance «act 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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