The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 33, sentence 1

The Caliph gave him a piece of money, and was passing on, but the blind man seized his hand, and held him fast.

Who acts: Caliph, blind man · What happens: give, pass on, seize, hold · To what, where: piece, him, hand, man

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Caliph, blind man), 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 Caliph	det
2	Caliph	Caliph	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 gave	nsubj
3	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 gave	iobj
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 piece	det
6	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gave	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 money	case
8	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 piece	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 passing	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 passing	cc
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 passing	aux
12	passing	pass	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 gave	advcl
13	on	on	ADP	_	12 passing	compound:prt
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 seized	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 seized	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 man	det
17	blind	blind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 man	amod
18	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 seized	nsubj
19	seized	seize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 gave	conj
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 hand	nmod:poss
21	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 seized	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 held	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 held	cc
24	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 gave	conj
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 held	obj
26	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	24 held	advmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	give	past	the Caliph	a piece of money	him = he		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient piece=Theme
2	pass on	past · progressive	the Caliph not said here				vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	seize	past	the blind man	man's hand			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme
4	hold	past	the Caliph not said here	man		fast property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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