The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 7, sentence 61

We all three sat down to table and amused ourselves with talking of all sorts of indifferent things, and with drinking each other's health.

Who acts: We · What happens: sit down, amuse, talk, drink, sort · To what, where: ourselves, health, indifferent things

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 (We), 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:pg128:650): 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	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 sat	nsubj
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	1 We	det
3	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 We	nummod
4	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	down	down	ADP	_	4 sat	compound:prt
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 table	case
7	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sat	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 amused	cc
9	amused	amuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sat	conj
10	ourselves	ourselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	9 amused	obj
11	with	with	SCONJ	_	12 talking	mark
12	talking	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 amused	advcl
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 sorts	case
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 sorts	det
15	sorts	sort	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 talking	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 things	case
17	indifferent	indifferent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 things	amod
18	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 sorts	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 drinking	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 drinking	cc
21	with	with	SCONJ	_	22 drinking	mark
22	drinking	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 talking	conj
23	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	24 other	det
24	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 health	nmod:poss
25	's	's	PART	_	24 other	case
26	health	health	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 drinking	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	sit down	past	We		to table	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	amuse	past	We not said here	ourselves		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus ourselves=Experiencer
3	talk	gerund	We not said here		of all sorts of indifferent things	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	drink	gerund	We not said here	each other's health		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent health=Patient
5	sort			indifferent things		nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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