The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 36, sentence 12

Like the other pilgrims he visited the sacred Mosque, and after all his religious duties were performed, he set out his goods to the best advantage, hoping to gain some customers among the passers-by.

Who acts: Ali · What happens: visit, perform, set out, hope, gain · To what, where: sacred Mosque, religious duties, goods, customers

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 (Ali), 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	Like	like	ADP	_	4 pilgrims	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 pilgrims	det
3	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 pilgrims	amod
4	pilgrims	pilgrim	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 visited	obl
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 visited	nsubj
6	visited	visit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Mosque	det
8	sacred	sacred	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 Mosque	amod
9	Mosque	Mosque	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 visited	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 set	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 set	cc
12	after	after	SCONJ	_	18 performed	mark
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 duties	det:predet
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 duties	nmod:poss
15	religious	religious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 duties	amod
16	duties	duty	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 performed	nsubj:pass
17	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 performed	aux:pass
18	performed	perform	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 set	advcl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 performed	punct
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 set	nsubj
21	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 visited	conj
22	out	out	ADP	_	21 set	compound:prt
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 goods	nmod:poss
24	goods	goods	NOUN	Number=Ptan	21 set	obj
25	to	to	ADP	_	28 advantage	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 advantage	det
27	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	28 advantage	amod
28	advantage	advantage	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 set	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 hoping	punct
30	hoping	hope	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 set	advcl
31	to	to	PART	_	32 gain	mark
32	gain	gain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 hoping	xcomp
33	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	34 customers	det
34	customers	customer	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 gain	obj
35	among	among	ADP	_	37 passers	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 passers	det
37	passers	passer	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 gain	obl
38	-	-	PUNCT	_	39 by	punct
39	by	by	ADP	_	37 passers	nmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 visited	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	visit	past	Ali	the sacred Mosque	like the other pilgrims	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mosque=Co-Agent
2	perform	past · passive		Ali's religious duties		vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	set out	past	Ali	Ali's goods	to the best advantage	tree rules
4	hope	gerund	Ali not said here			vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5	gain not said to happen	to-infinitive	Ali not said here	some customers	among the passers	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent customer=Theme

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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