The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 7, sentence 56

Directly after your departure I set a number of men to work on a building after my own design.

Who acts: I, your, my · What happens: set, work, depart, design · To what, where: number

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 (I, your, my), 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	Directly	directly	ADV	_	6 set	advmod
2	after	after	ADP	_	4 departure	case
3	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 departure	nmod:poss
4	departure	departure	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 set	obl
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 set	nsubj
6	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 number	det
8	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 set	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 men	case
10	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 number	nmod
11	to	to	PART	_	12 work	mark
12	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 set	advcl
13	on	on	ADP	_	15 building	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 building	det
15	building	building	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 work	obl
16	after	after	ADP	_	19 design	case
17	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 design	nmod:poss
18	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 design	amod
19	design	design	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 work	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 set	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	set	past	I	a number of men	after your departure	directly property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient number=Result
2	work	to-infinitive	I not said here		after my own design	on a building	vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on building=Theme
3	depart		your				nom departure «act intransitive»: poss=agent
4	design		my				nom design «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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