The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 32, sentence 80

He travelled to China to avenge his brother's death, and went to visit a pious woman called Fatima, thinking she might be of use to him.

Who acts: magician, Fatima, brother · What happens: travel, avenge, go, visit, call, think · To what, where: China, death, pious woman, magician · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (magician, Fatima, brother), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg128:2712): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

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 travelled	nsubj
2	travelled	travel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 China	case
4	China	China	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 travelled	obl
5	to	to	PART	_	6 avenge	mark
6	avenge	avenge	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 travelled	advcl
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 brother	nmod:poss
8	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 death	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 brother	case
10	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 avenge	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 went	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 went	cc
13	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 travelled	conj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 visit	mark
15	visit	visit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 went	xcomp
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 woman	det
17	pious	pious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 woman	amod
18	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 visit	obj
19	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 woman	acl
20	Fatima	Fatima	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 called	xcomp
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 thinking	punct
22	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 went	advcl
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 use	nsubj
24	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 use	aux
25	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	27 use	cop
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 use	case
27	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 thinking	ccomp
28	to	to	ADP	_	29 him	case
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 use	nmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 travelled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	travel	past	magician		China		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to china=Destination
2	avenge	to-infinitive	magician not said here	magician's brother's death			tree rules
3	go	past	magician not said here				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	visit	to-infinitive	magician not said here	a pious woman			vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woman=Co-Agent
5	call	participle		a pious woman not said here			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	think speech: other	gerund	magician not said here				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	is	might	Fatima		magician	of use	tree rules
8	die		magician's brother				nom death «event intransitive»: 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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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