The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 33, sentence 31
I had inherited from them a small fortune, which I worked hard night and day to increase, till at last I found myself the owner of eighty camels.
Who acts: I, small fortune · What happens: inherit, work, increase, find · To what, where: small fortune, myself
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 (I, small fortune), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 inherited | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 inherited | aux |
| 3 | inherited | inherit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 them | case |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 inherited | obl |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 fortune | det |
| 7 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 fortune | amod |
| 8 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 inherited | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 worked | punct |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 worked | nsubj |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 worked | nsubj |
| 12 | worked | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 fortune | acl:relcl |
| 13 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 night | amod |
| 14 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 worked | obl:unmarked |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 day | cc |
| 16 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 night | conj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 increase | mark |
| 18 | increase | increase | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 worked | advcl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 last | punct |
| 20 | till | till | ADP | _ | 22 last | case |
| 21 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 last | case |
| 22 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 increase | advcl |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 found | nsubj |
| 24 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 last | acl:relcl |
| 25 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 24 found | obj |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 owner | det |
| 27 | owner | owner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 found | obj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 camels | case |
| 29 | eighty | eighty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 30 camels | nummod |
| 30 | camels | camel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 owner | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 inherited | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | inherit | past · perfect | I | a small fortune | from parents = parent | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent fortune=Theme from they=Source | |||
| 2 | work | past | a small fortune | night | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | increase | to-infinitive | a small fortune not said here | vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | find | past | I | myself | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent myself=Theme owner=Attribute |
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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