The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 44, sentence 52

These are your children, who were saved from death by the intendant of your gardens, and brought up by him as if they were his own."

Who acts: intendant, children · What happens: be, save, bring up · To what, where: children, death

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 44. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (intendant, children), 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	These	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	4 children	det
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 children	cop
3	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 children	nmod:poss
4	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 saved	nsubj:pass
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 saved	punct
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 saved	nsubj:pass
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 saved	aux:pass
8	saved	save	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	from	from	ADP	_	10 death	case
10	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 saved	obl
11	by	by	ADP	_	13 intendant	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 intendant	det
13	intendant	intendant	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 saved	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 gardens	case
15	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 gardens	nmod:poss
16	gardens	garden	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 intendant	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 brought	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 brought	cc
19	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 saved	conj
20	up	up	ADP	_	19 brought	compound:prt
21	by	by	ADP	_	22 him	case
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 brought	obl
23	as	as	SCONJ	_	28 own	mark
24	if	if	SCONJ	_	28 own	mark
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 own	nsubj
26	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 own	cop
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 own	nmod:poss
28	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 brought	advcl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 saved	punct
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 saved	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present		your children			tree rules
2	save	past · passive	the intendant of your gardens	your children	death		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent subject=Theme from death=Source
3	bring up	participle	the intendant of your gardens not said here			by cat	vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent
4	is	past	children = child			own property	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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