The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 35, sentence 29

This he gave me, and indeed encouraged me to come into the house itself, giving me a corner where I might sleep, without being in anybody's way.

Who acts: This, me, I · What happens: give, encourage, come, sleep, be · To what, where: me, house, corner

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 (This, me, I), 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	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 gave	nsubj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 gave	nsubj
3	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 gave	iobj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 encouraged	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 encouraged	cc
7	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	8 encouraged	advmod
8	encouraged	encourage	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 gave	conj
9	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 encouraged	obj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 come	mark
11	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 encouraged	xcomp
12	into	into	ADP	_	14 house	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 house	det
14	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 come	obl
15	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	14 house	nmod:unmarked
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 giving	punct
17	giving	give	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 encouraged	advcl
18	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 giving	iobj
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 corner	det
20	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 giving	obj
21	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	24 sleep	advmod
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 sleep	nsubj
23	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 sleep	aux
24	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 corner	acl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 way	punct
26	without	without	ADP	_	31 way	case
27	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	31 way	cop
28	in	in	ADP	_	31 way	case
29	anybody	anybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	31 way	nmod:poss
30	's	's	PART	_	29 anybody	case
31	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 giving	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	give	past	This		me			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
2	encourage	past	This not said here	me			indeed property	vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP how S_INF»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic
3	come not said to happen	to-infinitive	me not said here			the house house		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into house=Initial_Location
4	give	gerund	This not said here	a corner	me			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient corner=Theme
5	sleep	might	I					vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	is	gerund					without anybody's way	tree rules

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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