The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 4, sentence 19

One day, when he was obliged by important business to go away from her, he went to a place where all kinds of birds are sold and bought a parrot.

Who acts: important business, man · What happens: oblige, go away, go, sell, buy · To what, where: man, place, kinds, parrot

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 (important business, 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 day	nummod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 obliged	obl:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 day	punct
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 obliged	advmod
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 obliged	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 obliged	aux:pass
7	obliged	oblige	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	by	by	ADP	_	10 business	case
9	important	important	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 business	amod
10	business	business	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 obliged	obl
11	to	to	PART	_	12 go	mark
12	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 obliged	advcl
13	away	away	ADV	_	12 go	advmod
14	from	from	ADP	_	15 her	case
15	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 go	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 went	punct
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 went	nsubj
18	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 obliged	conj
19	to	to	ADP	_	21 place	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 place	det
21	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 went	obl
22	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	28 sold	advmod
23	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	24 kinds	det
24	kinds	kind	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 sold	nsubj:pass
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 birds	case
26	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 kinds	nmod
27	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 sold	aux:pass
28	sold	sell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 place	acl:relcl
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 bought	cc
30	bought	buy	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 sold	conj
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 parrot	det
32	parrot	parrot	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 bought	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 obliged	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	oblige	past · passive	important business	man		day		vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient
2	go away	to-infinitive	important business not said here				from wife; away property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme from she=Initial_Location
3	go	past	man		a place			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to place=Initial_Location
4	sell	present · passive		all kinds of birds				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
5	buy	participle		a parrot				vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent parrot=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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