The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 5, sentence 35

The fisherman asked for three days, which were granted, and he then cast his nets in the lake, and again caught four different coloured fish.

Who acts: fisherman · What happens: ask, grant, cast, catch · To what, where: three days, nets, lake, four different coloured fish

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 5. 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.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg128:443): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

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 asked	nsubj
3	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 days	case
5	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 days	nummod
6	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 asked	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 granted	punct
8	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 granted	nsubj:pass
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 granted	aux:pass
10	granted	grant	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 days	acl:relcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 cast	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 cast	cc
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 cast	nsubj
14	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 cast	advmod
15	cast	cast	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 asked	conj
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 nets	nmod:poss
17	nets	net	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 cast	obj
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 lake	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 lake	det
20	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 cast	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 caught	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 caught	cc
23	again	again	ADV	_	24 caught	advmod
24	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 cast	conj
25	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 fish	nummod
26	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 fish	amod
27	coloured	coloured	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 fish	amod
28	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 caught	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	the fisherman			day	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	grant	past · passive		three days			vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: subject=Theme
3	cast	past	fisherman	fisherman's nets	the lake	then	vn throw-17.1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent net=Theme in lake=Destination
4	catch	past	fisherman not said here	four different coloured fish		again	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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