The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 33, sentence 32
These I hired out to travelling merchants, whom I frequently accompanied on their various journeys, and always returned with large profits.
Who acts: These, I, merchants · What happens: hire out, travel, accompany, return, journey · To what, where: various journeys
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 (These, I, merchants), 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 | These | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 hired | nsubj |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 hired | nsubj |
| 3 | hired | hire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADV | _ | 3 hired | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 merchants | case |
| 6 | travelling | travel | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 merchants | amod |
| 7 | merchants | merchant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 hired | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 whom | punct |
| 9 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 merchants | acl:relcl |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 accompanied | nsubj |
| 11 | frequently | frequently | ADV | _ | 12 accompanied | advmod |
| 12 | accompanied | accompany | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 whom | acl:relcl |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 journeys | case |
| 14 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 journeys | nmod:poss |
| 15 | various | various | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 journeys | amod |
| 16 | journeys | journey | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 accompanied | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 returned | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 returned | cc |
| 19 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 20 returned | advmod |
| 20 | returned | return | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 hired | conj |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 profits | case |
| 22 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 profits | amod |
| 23 | profits | profit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 returned | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 hired | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hire out | past | These | to travelling merchants; out property | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | travel | gerund | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | accompany | past | I | merchants's various journeys | frequently property | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on journey=Destination | |||
| 4 | return | participle | These not said here | with large profits; always property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | journey | merchants = merchant | nom journey «act transitive»: 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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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