The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 36, sentence 60

The merchant, who had expected something of the sort, had his reply all ready. "

Who acts: merchant, man · What happens: expect, have, reply · To what, where: merchant, reply

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 (merchant, man), 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 merchant	det
2	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 had	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 expected	punct
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 expected	nsubj:pass
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 expected	aux
6	expected	expect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 merchant	acl:relcl
7	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	6 expected	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 sort	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 sort	det
10	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 something	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 merchant	punct
12	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 reply	nmod:poss
14	reply	reply	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 had	obj
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 ready	advmod
16	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 had	xcomp
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 had	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	expect	past · perfect · passive		the merchant		vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: subject=Theme something=Eventuality
2	have	past	the merchant	man's reply	ready property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reply=Patient
3	reply		man			nom reply «communication 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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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