The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 36, sentence 46

A month later Ali Cogia re-entered Bagdad, and as his house was still let he went to an inn; and the following day set out to see his friend the merchant, who received him with open arms and many expressions of surprise.

Who acts: Ali, merchant · What happens: re-enter, be, go, follow, set out, see · To what, where: Bagdad, inn, following day, friend, Ali

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, merchant), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 month	det
2	month	month	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 later	obl:unmarked
3	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 re-entered	advmod
4	Ali	Ali	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 re-entered	nsubj
5	Cogia	Cogia	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Ali	flat
6	re-entered	re-enter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	Bagdad	Bagdad	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 re-entered	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 let	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 let	cc
10	as	as	ADP	_	12 house	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 house	nmod:poss
12	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 let	obl
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 let	cop
14	still	still	ADV	_	15 let	advmod
15	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 re-entered	ccomp
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 went	nsubj
17	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 let	conj
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 inn	case
19	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 inn	det
20	inn	inn	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 went	obl
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 day	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 day	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 day	det
24	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	25 day	amod
25	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 re-entered	obl
26	set	set	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 day	acl
27	out	out	ADP	_	26 set	compound:prt
28	to	to	PART	_	29 see	mark
29	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 set	advcl
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 friend	nmod:poss
31	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 see	obj
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 merchant	det
33	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 see	obj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 received	punct
35	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	36 received	nsubj
36	received	receive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 merchant	acl:relcl
37	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 received	obj
38	with	with	ADP	_	40 arms	case
39	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 arms	amod
40	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 received	obl
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 expressions	cc
42	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 expressions	amod
43	expressions	expression	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 arms	conj
44	of	of	ADP	_	45 surprise	case
45	surprise	surprise	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 expressions	nmod
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 re-entered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	re-enter	past	Ali	Bagdad		day	late property	tree rules
2	is	past	Ali not said here			still	as Ali's house; let property	tree rules
3	go	past	Ali		a inn			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to inn=Initial_Location
4	follow	gerund						vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	set out	participle		the following day not said here				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	see	to-infinitive		Ali's friend				tree rules
7	receive	past	the merchant	Ali			with open arms and many expressions of surprise	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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