The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 4, sentence 135

The fisherman resolved to obey the genius exactly, so he did not cast his nets a second time, but walked into the town to sell his fish at the palace.

Who acts: fisherman · What happens: resolve, obey, not cast, walk, sell · To what, where: genius, nets, town, fish, palace

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fisherman), 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 fisherman	det
2	fisherman	fisherman	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 resolved	nsubj
3	resolved	resolve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 obey	mark
5	obey	obey	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 resolved	xcomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 genius	det
7	genius	genius	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 obey	obj
8	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	5 obey	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 cast	punct
10	so	so	ADV	_	14 cast	advmod
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 cast	nsubj
12	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 cast	aux
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 cast	advmod
14	cast	cast	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 obey	conj
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 nets	nmod:poss
16	nets	net	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 cast	obj
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 time	det
18	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	19 time	amod
19	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 cast	obl:unmarked
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 walked	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 walked	cc
22	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 resolved	conj
23	into	into	ADP	_	25 town	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 town	det
25	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 walked	obl
26	to	to	PART	_	27 sell	mark
27	sell	sell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 walked	advcl
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 fish	nmod:poss
29	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 sell	obj
30	at	at	ADP	_	32 palace	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 palace	det
32	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 sell	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 resolved	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	resolve	past	the fisherman					tree rules
2	obey	to-infinitive	the fisherman not said here	the genius			exactly property	vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent genius=Theme
3	not cast	past · do-support	fisherman	fisherman's nets		time		vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent net=Product
4	walk	past	the fisherman not said here				into the town result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into town=Result
5	sell	to-infinitive	the fisherman not said here	fisherman's fish	the palace			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent fish=Theme at palace=Asset

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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