The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 35, sentence 103

He had spent some years quite happily in the house his father had left him, when three nights running he dreamed that an old man had appeared to him, and reproached him for having neglected the duty of a good Mussulman, in delaying so long his pilgrimage to Mecca.

Who acts: Merchant, father, three nights, old man · What happens: spend, leave, run, dream, appear, reproach · To what, where: Merchant, house, neglected duty · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Merchant, father, three nights, old man), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 spent	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 spent	aux
3	spent	spend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	5 years	det
5	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 spent	obj
6	quite	quite	ADV	_	7 happily	advmod
7	happily	happily	ADV	_	3 spent	advmod
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 house	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 house	det
10	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 left	obl
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 father	nmod:poss
12	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 left	nsubj
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 left	aux
14	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 spent	parataxis
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 left	iobj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 running	punct
17	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	20 running	advmod
18	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 nights	nummod
19	nights	night	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 running	nsubj
20	running	run	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 left	conj
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 dreamed	nsubj
22	dreamed	dream	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 running	acl:relcl
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 appeared	mark
24	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 man	det
25	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 man	amod
26	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 appeared	nsubj
27	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 appeared	aux
28	appeared	appear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	22 dreamed	ccomp
29	to	to	ADP	_	30 him	case
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 appeared	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 reproached	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 reproached	cc
33	reproached	reproach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 spent	conj
34	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 reproached	obj
35	for	for	SCONJ	_	36 having	mark
36	having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	33 reproached	advcl
37	neglected	neglect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	39 duty	amod
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 duty	det
39	duty	duty	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 having	obj
40	of	of	ADP	_	43 Mussulman	case
41	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	43 Mussulman	det
42	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 Mussulman	amod
43	Mussulman	mussulman	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 duty	nmod
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 delaying	punct
45	in	in	SCONJ	_	46 delaying	mark
46	delaying	delay	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	36 having	conj
47	so	so	ADV	_	48 long	advmod
48	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	46 delaying	advmod
49	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	50 pilgrimage	nmod:poss
50	pilgrimage	pilgrimage	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 long	nsubj
51	to	to	ADP	_	52 Mecca	case
52	Mecca	Mecca	PROPN	Number=Sing	50 pilgrimage	nmod
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 spent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spend	past · perfect	Merchant				year	happily property	vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	leave	past · perfect	Merchant's father		Merchant	the house			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Theme in house=Location
3	run	gerund	three nights						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	dream	past	Merchant						vn cognize-85 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	appear	past · perfect	a old man		Merchant				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	reproach	past	Merchant not said here	Merchant					vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
7	have	gerund	Merchant not said here	the neglected duty of a good Mussulman					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent duty=Patient
8	neglect	participle							vn neglect-75.1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent
9	delay	gerund	Merchant not said here					long property	vn delay-53.3-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=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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