The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 30, sentence 66

To gain this end, he loaded several of his own slaves with rich gifts, and presented himself at their head to the king, saying that they were from the new king on his coronation.

Who acts: Saouy, gifts · What happens: gain, load, present, say, be, coronate · To what, where: end, several, Saouy, head, coronation · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Saouy, gifts), 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	To	to	PART	_	2 gain	mark
2	gain	gain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 loaded	advcl
3	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 end	det
4	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gain	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 loaded	punct
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 loaded	nsubj
7	loaded	load	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 loaded	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	12 slaves	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 slaves	nmod:poss
11	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 slaves	amod
12	slaves	slave	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 several	obl
13	with	with	ADP	_	15 gifts	case
14	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 gifts	amod
15	gifts	gift	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 slaves	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 presented	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 presented	cc
18	presented	present	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 loaded	conj
19	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	18 presented	obj
20	at	at	ADP	_	22 head	case
21	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 head	nmod:poss
22	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 presented	obl
23	to	to	ADP	_	25 king	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 king	det
25	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 head	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 saying	punct
27	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 presented	advcl
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	34 king	mark
29	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 king	nsubj
30	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 king	cop
31	from	from	ADP	_	34 king	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 king	det
33	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 king	amod
34	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 saying	ccomp
35	on	on	ADP	_	37 coronation	case
36	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 coronation	nmod:poss
37	coronation	coronation	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 king	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 loaded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	gain	to-infinitive	Saouy not said here	this end			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent end=Theme
2	load	past	Saouy	several			vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent several=Theme
3	present	past	Saouy not said here	Saouy	gifts's head to the king		vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme
4	say speech: assert	gerund	Saouy not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	is	past	gifts = gift		Saouy's coronation	from the new king	tree rules
6	coronate		Saouy				nom coronation «event 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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