The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 35, sentence 22

In spite of his objection to dogs, as unclean animals, my protector was a kind-hearted man, and knowing I had eaten nothing since yesterday, he threw me bigger and better bits than those which fell to the share of the other dogs.

Who acts: protector, dog, I, host · What happens: be, know, eat, throw, fall, spite · To what, where: hearted man, spite, nothing, bigger bits, me, objection · 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 (protector, dog, I, host), 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 spite	case
2	spite	spite	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 man	obl
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 objection	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 objection	nmod:poss
5	objection	objection	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 spite	nmod
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 dogs	case
7	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 objection	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 animals	punct
9	as	as	ADP	_	11 animals	case
10	unclean	unclean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 animals	amod
11	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 dogs	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 spite	punct
13	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 protector	nmod:poss
14	protector	protector	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 man	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 man	cop
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 man	det
17	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 hearted	compound
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 kind	punct
19	hearted	hearted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 man	amod
20	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 threw	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 threw	cc
23	knowing	know	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	32 threw	advcl
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 eaten	nsubj
25	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 eaten	aux
26	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	23 knowing	ccomp
27	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	26 eaten	obj
28	since	since	ADP	_	29 yesterday	case
29	yesterday	yesterday	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 eaten	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 knowing	punct
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 threw	nsubj
32	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 man	acl:relcl
33	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 threw	obj
34	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	37 bits	amod
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 better	cc
36	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	34 bigger	conj
37	bits	bit	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 threw	obj
38	than	than	ADP	_	39 those	case
39	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	37 bits	nmod
40	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	41 fell	nsubj
41	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 those	acl:relcl
42	to	to	ADP	_	44 share	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 share	det
44	share	share	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 fell	obl
45	of	of	ADP	_	48 dogs	case
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 dogs	det
47	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 dogs	amod
48	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 share	nmod
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 man	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	my protector	a hearted man		spite of host's objection to dogs and unclean animals			tree rules
2	know	gerund	dog not said here						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	eat	past · perfect	I	nothing			yesterday		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient
4	throw	past	dog	bigger bits	me				vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination bit=Theme
5	fall	past						to the share of the other dogs	vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to share=Theme
6	spite			host's objection to dogs and unclean animals					nom spite «feeling transitive»: of=patient
7	object		host					to dogs and unclean animals	nom objection «communication intransitive»: poss=agent to=obl
8	share			the other dogs					nom share «possession transitive»: of=patient

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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