The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 7, sentence 51

My father's only brother reigned over the neighbouring country, and had two children, a daughter and a son, who were of the same age as myself.

Who acts: father, brother, son · What happens: be, reign, neighbour, have · To what, where: brother, neighbouring country, two children

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, brother, son), 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	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 father	nmod:poss
2	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 brother	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 brother	cop
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 brother	advmod
5	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 reigned	nsubj
6	reigned	reign	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	over	over	ADP	_	10 country	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 country	det
9	neighbouring	neighbour	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 country	amod
10	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 reigned	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 had	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 had	cc
13	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 reigned	conj
14	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 children	nummod
15	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 had	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 daughter	punct
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 daughter	det
18	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 children	conj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 son	cc
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 son	det
21	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 children	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 age	punct
23	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 age	nsubj
24	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 age	cop
25	of	of	ADP	_	28 age	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 age	det
27	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 age	amod
28	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 son	appos
29	as	as	ADP	_	30 myself	case
30	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	28 age	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 reigned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	My father	brother				tree rules
2	reign	past	brother		the neighbouring country			tree rules
3	neighbour	gerund						tree rules
4	have	past	brother not said here	two children and a daughter and a son				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient
5	is	past	a son			of the same age	as myself	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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