The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 36, sentence 2
The shop itself he sold also, and easily found a tenant for his private house.
Who acts: he · What happens: sell, find · To what, where: shop, tenant
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), 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 shop | det |
| 2 | shop | shop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sold | obl |
| 3 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 2 shop | nmod:unmarked |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 sold | nsubj |
| 5 | sold | sell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | also | also | ADV | _ | 5 sold | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 found | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 found | cc |
| 9 | easily | easily | ADV | _ | 10 found | advmod |
| 10 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 sold | conj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 tenant | det |
| 12 | tenant | tenant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 found | obj |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 house | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 house | nmod:poss |
| 15 | private | private | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 house | amod |
| 16 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 found | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 sold | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sell | past | he | the shop shop | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | find | past | he not said here | a tenant | for his private house; easily property | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent tenant=Theme for house=Beneficiary |
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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