The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 35, sentence 47

Of course there were plenty who envied him his large custom, and many was the pitfall set for me, so that he never dared to let me out of his sight.

Who acts: plenty, pitfall · What happens: be, envy, set, not dare, not let, sight · To what, where: large custom, plenty, pitfall, me, sight

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 (plenty, pitfall), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg128:2967): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Of	of	ADP	ExtPos=ADV	4 were	advmod
2	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Of	fixed
3	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	4 were	expl
4	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	plenty	plenty	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 were	nsubj
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 envied	nsubj
7	envied	envy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 plenty	acl:relcl
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 envied	iobj
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 custom	nmod:poss
10	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 custom	amod
11	custom	custom	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 envied	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 many	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 many	cc
14	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 were	conj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 many	cop
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 pitfall	det
17	pitfall	pitfall	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 many	nsubj
18	set	set	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 pitfall	acl
19	for	for	ADP	_	20 me	case
20	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 set	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 dared	punct
22	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	26 dared	mark
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 so	fixed
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 dared	nsubj
25	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	26 dared	advmod
26	dared	dare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 were	advcl
27	to	to	PART	_	28 let	mark
28	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 dared	xcomp
29	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 let	obj
30	out	out	ADP	_	33 sight	case
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 sight	case
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 sight	nmod:poss
33	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 let	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 were	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	plenty			there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	envy	past	plenty	plenty's large custom	plenty			tree rules
3	is	past	the pitfall				many property	tree rules
4	set	participle		the pitfall not said here			for me	vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for i=Beneficiary
5	not dare	past	plenty					vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	not let	to-infinitive	plenty not said here	me		plenty's sight		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
7	sight		plenty					nom sight «cognition 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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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