The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 35, sentence 46

The baker drove a roaring trade, and admitted that I was worth my weight in gold to him.

Who acts: baker, I · What happens: drive, roar, admit, be · To what, where: roaring trade, shop, gold · 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 (baker, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 baker	det
2	baker	baker	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 drove	nsubj
3	drove	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 trade	det
5	roaring	roar	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 trade	amod
6	trade	trade	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 drove	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 admitted	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 admitted	cc
9	admitted	admit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 drove	conj
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 worth	mark
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 worth	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 worth	cop
13	worth	worth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 admitted	ccomp
14	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 weight	nmod:poss
15	weight	weight	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 worth	obj
16	in	in	ADP	_	17 gold	case
17	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 worth	obl
18	to	to	ADP	_	19 him	case
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 worth	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 drove	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	drive	past	the baker	a roaring trade				vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme trade=Trajectory
2	roar	gerund						vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	admit speech: other	past	the baker not said here					vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
4	is	past	I		shop	gold	worth property	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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