The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 33, sentence 65

What does a dervish want with riches like that?"

Who acts: dervish · What happens: want · To what, where: riches

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 (dervish), 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 want	obj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 want	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 dervish	det
4	dervish	dervish	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 want	nsubj
5	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 riches	case
7	riches	rich	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 want	obj
8	like	like	ADP	_	9 that	case
9	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 riches	nmod
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 want	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 want	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present · do-support	a dervish	riches				like that	vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme rich=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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