The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 41, sentence 4

Having no children himself, although he had been married some years, it at once occurred to him that here was a child which he could take and bring up as his own.

Who acts: cradle, child · What happens: have, marry, occur, be, take, bring up · To what, where: children, gardener, child

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 (cradle, child), 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	Having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 occurred	advcl
2	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	3 children	det
3	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Having	obj
4	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	1 Having	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 married	punct
6	although	although	SCONJ	_	10 married	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 married	nsubj:pass
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 married	aux
9	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 married	aux:pass
10	married	marry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Having	advcl
11	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	12 years	det
12	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 married	obl:unmarked
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Having	punct
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 occurred	nsubj
15	at	at	ADP	_	16 once	case
16	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	17 occurred	obl
17	occurred	occur	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	to	to	ADP	_	19 him	case
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 occurred	obl
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 here	mark
21	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	24 child	advcl
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 child	cop
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 child	det
24	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 occurred	obl
25	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 take	nsubj
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 take	nsubj
27	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 take	aux
28	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 child	acl:relcl
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 bring	cc
30	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 take	conj
31	up	up	ADP	_	30 bring	compound:prt
32	as	as	ADP	_	34 own	case
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 own	nmod:poss
34	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 bring	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 occurred	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	have	gerund	cradle not said here	no children			gardener obl	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient
2	marry	past · perfect · passive		gardener		year		vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
3	occur	past	cradle		gardener			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at once=Location
4	is a	past		a child				tree rules
5	take	could	a child					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	bring up	infinitive	a child not said here				as gardener's own	vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=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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