The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 31, sentence 14

The magician left Persia for ever, which plainly showed that he was no uncle of Aladdin's, but a cunning magician who had read in his magic books of a wonderful lamp, which would make him the most powerful man in the world.

Who acts: magician, cunning magician · What happens: leave, show, be, read, make · To what, where: Persia, uncle, magic books · Speech: someone speaks here

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: who acts (magician, cunning magician), 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 magician	det
2	magician	magician	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 left	nsubj
3	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	Persia	Persia	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 left	obj
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 ever	case
6	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	3 left	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 showed	punct
8	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 showed	nsubj
9	plainly	plainly	ADV	_	10 showed	advmod
10	showed	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 left	parataxis
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 uncle	mark
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 uncle	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 uncle	cop
14	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	15 uncle	det
15	uncle	uncle	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 showed	ccomp
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 Aladdin	case
17	Aladdin	Aladdin	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 uncle	nmod
18	's	's	PART	_	17 Aladdin	case
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 make	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	38 make	cc
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 magician	det
22	cunning	cunning	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 magician	amod
23	magician	magician	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 make	nsubj
24	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 read	nsubj
25	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 read	aux
26	read	read	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	23 magician	acl:relcl
27	in	in	ADP	_	30 books	case
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 books	nmod:poss
29	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 books	compound
30	books	book	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 read	obl
31	of	of	ADP	_	34 lamp	case
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 lamp	det
33	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 lamp	amod
34	lamp	lamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 books	nmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 make	punct
36	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	38 make	nsubj
37	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 make	aux
38	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 showed	conj
39	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 make	obj
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 man	det
41	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	42 powerful	advmod
42	powerful	powerful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 man	amod
43	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 make	xcomp
44	in	in	ADP	_	46 world	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 world	det
46	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 man	nmod
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 left	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	leave	past	the magician	Persia			vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent persia=Theme for ever=Recipient
2	show	past				plainly property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is a	past	magician	no uncle		of Aladdin	tree rules
4	read	past · perfect	a cunning magician		magician's magic books of a wonderful lamp		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	make	would	a cunning magician	Persia			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset he=Product

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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