The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 37, sentence 64

The horse was not constructed by me, but it was given me by the inventor, in exchange for my only daughter, who made me take a solemn oath that I would never part with it, except for some object of equal value."

Who acts: me, inventor, exchange, solemn oath · What happens: not construct, give, make, take, not part · To what, where: horse, me, exchange, solemn oath

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (me, inventor, exchange, solemn oath), 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 horse	det
2	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 constructed	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 constructed	aux:pass
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 constructed	advmod
5	constructed	construct	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	by	by	ADP	_	7 me	case
7	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 constructed	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 given	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 given	cc
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 given	nsubj:pass
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 given	aux:pass
12	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 constructed	conj
13	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 given	iobj
14	by	by	ADP	_	16 inventor	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 inventor	det
16	inventor	inventor	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 given	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 exchange	punct
18	in	in	ADP	_	19 exchange	case
19	exchange	exchange	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 given	obl
20	for	for	ADP	_	23 daughter	case
21	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 daughter	nmod:poss
22	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 daughter	amod
23	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 exchange	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 made	punct
25	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 made	nsubj
26	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 exchange	acl:relcl
27	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 made	obj
28	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 made	xcomp
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 oath	det
30	solemn	solemn	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 oath	amod
31	oath	oath	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 take	obj
32	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	36 part	nsubj
33	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	36 part	nsubj
34	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 part	aux
35	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	36 part	advmod
36	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 oath	acl:relcl
37	with	with	ADP	_	38 it	case
38	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 part	nmod
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 object	punct
40	except	except	ADP	_	43 object	case
41	for	for	ADP	_	43 object	case
42	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	43 object	det
43	object	object	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 take	obl
44	of	of	ADP	_	46 value	case
45	equal	equal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 value	amod
46	value	value	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 object	nmod
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 constructed	punct
48	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 constructed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	not construct	past · passive	me	the horse				vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Result
2	give	past · passive	the inventor	Horse	me	exchange for my only daughter		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent subject=Recipient i=Theme
3	make	past	exchange for my only daughter	me				tree rules
4	take	infinitive	me not said here	a solemn oath			except some object of equal value	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oath=Theme
5	not part	would	a solemn oath				with Horse	tree rules

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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