The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 41, sentence 24

Like its brothers, it was found by the intendant of the gardens, and adopted by him and his wife, and all three were brought up with the greatest care and tenderness.

Who acts: intendant · What happens: find, adopt, bring up · To what, where: meekness, three

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 41. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (intendant), 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	Like	like	ADP	_	3 brothers	case
2	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 brothers	nmod:poss
3	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 found	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 brothers	punct
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 found	nsubj:pass
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 found	aux:pass
7	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	by	by	ADP	_	10 intendant	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 intendant	det
10	intendant	intendant	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 found	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 gardens	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 gardens	det
13	gardens	garden	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 intendant	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 adopted	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 adopted	cc
16	adopted	adopt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 found	conj
17	by	by	ADP	_	18 him	case
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 adopted	obl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 wife	cc
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 wife	nmod:poss
21	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 him	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 brought	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 brought	cc
24	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	25 three	det
25	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 brought	nsubj:pass
26	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 brought	aux:pass
27	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 found	conj
28	up	up	ADP	_	27 brought	compound:prt
29	with	with	ADP	_	32 care	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 care	det
31	greatest	great	ADJ	Degree=Sup	32 care	amod
32	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 brought	obl
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 tenderness	cc
34	tenderness	tenderness	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 care	conj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	find	past · passive	the intendant of the gardens	meekness	like meekness's brothers	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Topic
2	adopt	participle	the intendant of the gardens not said here		by baby	vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	bring up	past · passive		all three	with the greatest care and tenderness	vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with care=Instrument

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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