The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 36, sentence 1

The first thing he did was to sell his furniture and the wares he had in his shop, only reserving to himself such goods as he might trade with on the road.

Who acts: he, first thing · What happens: do, be, have, reserve, trade · To what, where: first thing, furniture, shop, such goods, himself

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (he, first thing), 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	3 thing	det
2	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 thing	amod
3	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sell	nsubj
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 did	nsubj
5	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 thing	acl:relcl
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 sell	cop
7	to	to	PART	_	8 sell	mark
8	sell	sell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 furniture	nmod:poss
10	furniture	furniture	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sell	obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 wares	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 wares	det
13	wares	ware	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 furniture	conj
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 had	nsubj
15	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 furniture	acl:relcl
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 shop	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 shop	nmod:poss
18	shop	shop	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 had	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 reserving	punct
20	only	only	ADV	_	21 reserving	advmod
21	reserving	reserve	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 sell	advcl
22	to	to	ADP	_	23 himself	case
23	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	21 reserving	obl
24	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 goods	amod
25	goods	goods	NOUN	Number=Ptan	21 reserving	obj
26	as	as	SCONJ	_	29 trade	mark
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 trade	nsubj
28	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 trade	aux
29	trade	trade	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 reserving	advcl
30	with	with	ADP	_	33 road	case
31	on	on	ADP	_	33 road	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 road	det
33	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 trade	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 sell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	do	past	he	the first thing not said here				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality
2	is	past	the first thing				sell property	tree rules
3	have	past	he	his furniture and the wares not said here		his shop		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent furniture=Patient
4	reserve	gerund	the first thing not said here	such goods	himself = he			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goods=Theme
5	trade	might	he				with the road	vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with road=Co-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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