The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 31, sentence 40

He then had recourse to the genie, who gave him another set of plates, and thus they lived for many years.

Who acts: Aladdin, genie, plates · What happens: have, give, live · To what, where: recourse, set, Aladdin

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 (Aladdin, genie, plates), 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 had	nsubj
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 had	advmod
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	recourse	recourse	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	obj
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 genie	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 genie	det
7	genie	genie	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 gave	punct
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 gave	nsubj
10	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 genie	acl:relcl
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 gave	iobj
12	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	13 set	det
13	set	set	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 gave	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 plates	case
15	plates	plate	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 set	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 lived	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 lived	cc
18	thus	thus	ADV	_	20 lived	advmod
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 lived	nsubj
20	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 had	conj
21	for	for	ADP	_	23 years	case
22	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 years	amod
23	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 lived	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	Aladdin	recourse		then	to the genie	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent recourse=Patient
2	give	past	the genie	another set of plates	Aladdin			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient set=Theme
3	live	past	plates = plate			year	thus property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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