The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 8, sentence 33

But what I liked best of all was writing Arabic characters, and in this I soon surpassed my masters, and gained a reputation in this branch of knowledge that reached as far as India itself.

Who acts: I, best, knowledge · What happens: like, write, surpass, gain, reach · To what, where: Arabic characters, masters, reputation

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, best, knowledge), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 liked	cc
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 liked	obj
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 liked	nsubj
4	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	9 writing	nsubj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 all	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 best	nmod
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 writing	aux
9	writing	write	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 liked	ccomp
10	Arabic	Arabic	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 characters	compound
11	characters	character	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 writing	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 surpassed	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 surpassed	cc
14	in	in	ADP	_	15 this	case
15	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	18 surpassed	obl
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 surpassed	nsubj
17	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	18 surpassed	advmod
18	surpassed	surpass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 liked	conj
19	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 masters	nmod:poss
20	masters	master	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 surpassed	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 gained	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 gained	cc
23	gained	gain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 surpassed	parataxis
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 reputation	det
25	reputation	reputation	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 gained	obj
26	in	in	ADP	_	28 branch	case
27	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	28 branch	det
28	branch	branch	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 gained	obl
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 knowledge	case
30	knowledge	knowledge	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 branch	nmod
31	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 reached	nsubj
32	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 knowledge	acl:relcl
33	as	as	ADV	_	34 far	advmod
34	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	32 reached	advmod
35	as	as	ADP	_	36 India	case
36	India	India	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 far	obl
37	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	36 India	nmod:unmarked
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 liked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	like	past	I			tree rules
2	write	past · progressive	best of all	Arabic characters		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent character=Theme
3	surpass	past	I	my masters	in this; soon property	vn exceed-90 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot master=Theme in this=Attribute
4	gain	past		a reputation	in this branch of knowledge	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient reputation=Extent in branch=Attribute
5	reach	past	knowledge		far property	vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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