The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 31, sentence 137

He was made captain of the Sultan's armies, and won several battles for him, but remained modest and courteous as before, and lived thus in peace and content for several years.

What happens: make, win, remain, live · To what, where: Aladdin, several battles, peace

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	3 made	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 made	aux:pass
3	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	captain	captain	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	xcomp
5	of	of	ADP	_	9 armies	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Sultan	det
7	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 armies	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 Sultan	case
9	armies	army	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 captain	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 won	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 won	cc
12	won	win	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 made	parataxis
13	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 battles	amod
14	battles	battle	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 won	obj
15	for	for	ADP	_	16 him	case
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 battles	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 remained	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 remained	cc
19	remained	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 won	conj
20	modest	modest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 remained	xcomp
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 courteous	cc
22	courteous	courteous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 modest	conj
23	as	as	ADP	_	24 before	case
24	before	before	ADV	_	22 courteous	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 lived	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 lived	cc
27	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 won	conj
28	thus	thus	ADV	_	27 lived	advmod
29	in	in	ADP	_	30 peace	case
30	peace	peace	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 lived	obl
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 content	cc
32	content	content	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 peace	conj
33	for	for	ADP	_	35 years	case
34	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 years	amod
35	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 lived	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past · passive	Aladdin				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
2	win	past	several battles			for Aladdin	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent battle=Theme for he=Beneficiary
3	remain	past				modest property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	live	past		peace and content	year	thus property	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in peace=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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