The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 30, sentence 90

He became one of his most intimate courtiers, and lived long in great happiness with the fair Persian.

Who acts: Noureddin · What happens: become, live · To what, where: great happiness

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 (Noureddin), 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 became	nsubj
2	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 became	xcomp
4	of	of	ADP	_	8 courtiers	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 courtiers	nmod:poss
6	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	8 courtiers	amod
7	intimate	intimate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 courtiers	amod
8	courtiers	courtier	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 one	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 lived	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 lived	cc
11	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 became	conj
12	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 lived	advmod
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 happiness	case
14	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 happiness	amod
15	happiness	happiness	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 lived	obl
16	with	with	ADP	_	19 Persian	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Persian	det
18	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 Persian	amod
19	Persian	Persian	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 happiness	nmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 became	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	past	Noureddin						vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	live	past	Noureddin not said here			great happiness with the fair Persian		long property	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in happiness=Location

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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