The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 6, sentence 25

At a word from Zobeida, Sadie and Amina took the basket from the porter, who was glad enough to be relieved from its weight; and when it was emptied, paid him handsomely for its use.

Who acts: porter, basket · What happens: take, be, relieve, empty, pay, use · To what, where: basket, word, Amina

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (porter, basket), 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	At	at	ADP	_	3 word	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 word	det
3	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 took	obl
4	from	from	ADP	_	5 Zobeida	case
5	Zobeida	Zobeida	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 word	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 Sadie	punct
7	Sadie	Sadie	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Zobeida	conj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 Amina	cc
9	Amina	Amina	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Zobeida	conj
10	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 basket	det
12	basket	basket	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 took	obj
13	from	from	ADP	_	15 porter	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 porter	det
15	porter	porter	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 basket	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 glad	punct
17	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 glad	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 glad	cop
19	glad	glad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 porter	conj
20	enough	enough	ADV	_	19 glad	advmod
21	to	to	PART	_	23 relieved	mark
22	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 relieved	aux:pass
23	relieved	relieve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 glad	advcl
24	from	from	ADP	_	26 weight	case
25	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 weight	nmod:poss
26	weight	weight	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 relieved	obl
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 emptied	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 emptied	cc
29	when	when	SCONJ	_	32 emptied	mark
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 emptied	nsubj:pass
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 emptied	aux:pass
32	emptied	empty	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 took	conj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 paid	punct
34	paid	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 took	conj
35	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 paid	obj
36	handsomely	handsomely	ADV	_	34 paid	advmod
37	for	for	ADP	_	39 use	case
38	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 use	nmod:poss
39	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 paid	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	take	past		the basket	a word from Zobeida and Sadie and Amina	from the porter	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent basket=Theme at word=Asset from porter=Source
2	is	past	the porter			enough, glad property	tree rules
3	relieve	to-infinitive · passive	the porter not said here			from basket's weight	vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: from weight=Theme
4	empty	past · passive		basket			vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: subject=Source
5	pay	past		Amina		for basket's use; handsomely property	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Asset for use=Theme
6	use		basket				nom use «act transitive»: poss=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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