The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 33, sentence 35

We soon made friends, and after we had asked each other the usual questions, we produced the food we had with us, and satisfied our hunger.

Who acts: We, our · What happens: make, ask, produce, have, hunger · To what, where: friends, food

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 (We, our), 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	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 made	nsubj
2	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 made	advmod
3	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 made	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 produced	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 produced	cc
7	after	after	SCONJ	_	10 asked	mark
8	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 asked	nsubj
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 asked	aux
10	asked	ask	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 produced	advcl
11	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	12 other	det
12	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 asked	ccomp
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 questions	det
14	usual	usual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 questions	amod
15	questions	question	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 other	nsubj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 asked	punct
17	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 produced	nsubj
18	produced	produce	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 made	conj
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 food	det
20	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 produced	obj
21	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 had	nsubj
22	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 food	acl:relcl
23	with	with	ADP	_	24 us	case
24	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 had	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 satisfied	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 satisfied	cc
27	satisfied	satisfied	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 produced	advcl
28	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 hunger	nmod:poss
29	hunger	hunger	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 satisfied	nsubj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	make	past	We	friends	soon property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Product
2	ask speech: ask	past · perfect	we			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	produce	past	we	the food		vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Result
4	have	past	we	the food not said here	with us	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Patient
5	hunger		our			nom hunger «state 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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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