The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 33, sentence 82

As before, the dervish made no difficulties, and I drove off my ten camels in triumph, only leaving him with twenty for his share.

Who acts: dervish, I, brother · What happens: make, drive off, leave, share · To what, where: difficulties, ten camels, triumph, brother

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, I, brother), 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	As	as	ADP	_	2 before	case
2	before	before	ADV	_	6 made	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 before	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 dervish	det
5	dervish	dervish	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 made	nsubj
6	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 difficulties	det
8	difficulties	difficulty	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 made	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 drove	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 drove	cc
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 drove	nsubj
12	drove	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 made	conj
13	off	off	ADP	_	12 drove	compound:prt
14	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 camels	nmod:poss
15	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 camels	nummod
16	camels	camel	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 drove	obj
17	in	in	ADP	_	18 triumph	case
18	triumph	triumph	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 drove	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 leaving	punct
20	only	only	ADV	_	21 leaving	advmod
21	leaving	leave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 drove	advcl
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 leaving	obj
23	with	with	ADP	_	24 twenty	case
24	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 leaving	obl
25	for	for	ADP	_	27 share	case
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 share	nmod:poss
27	share	share	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 leaving	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	make	past	the dervish	no difficulties				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset difficulty=Product
2	drive off	past	I	my ten camels		triumph		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent camel=Theme in triumph=Destination
3	leave	gerund	I not said here		brother		with twenty; for brother's share	vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Recipient with twenty=Theme
4	share		brother					nom share «possession 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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