The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 8, sentence 52

I thanked the tailor for his counsel, and said I would do whatever he advised; then, being very hungry, I gladly ate of the food he put before me, and accepted his offer of a lodging in his house.

Who acts: I, tailor · What happens: thank, say, do, advise, be, eat · To what, where: tailor, whatever, food, offer, house, lodging · Speech: someone speaks here

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, tailor), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 thanked	nsubj
2	thanked	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 tailor	det
4	tailor	tailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 thanked	obj
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 counsel	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 counsel	nmod:poss
7	counsel	counsel	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tailor	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 said	cc
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 thanked	conj
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 do	nsubj
12	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 do	aux
13	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	ccomp
14	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 do	obj
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 advised	nsubj
16	advised	advise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 whatever	acl:relcl
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 hungry	punct
18	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	22 hungry	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 hungry	punct
20	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 hungry	cop
21	very	very	ADV	_	22 hungry	advmod
22	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 thanked	parataxis
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 ate	punct
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 ate	nsubj
25	gladly	gladly	ADV	_	26 ate	advmod
26	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 hungry	conj
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 food	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 food	det
29	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 ate	obl
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 put	nsubj
31	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 food	acl:relcl
32	before	before	ADP	_	33 me	case
33	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 put	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 accepted	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 accepted	cc
36	accepted	accept	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 ate	conj
37	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 offer	nmod:poss
38	offer	offer	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 accepted	obj
39	of	of	ADP	_	41 lodging	case
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 lodging	det
41	lodging	lodging	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 offer	nmod
42	in	in	ADP	_	44 house	case
43	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 house	nmod:poss
44	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 accepted	obl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 thanked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	thank speech: thank	past	I		the tailor				vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent tailor=Theme for counsel=Attribute
2	say speech: assert	past	I not said here						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	do	would	I	whatever					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whatever=Eventuality
4	advise speech: other	past	tailor						vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent
5	is	gerund					then	hungry property	tree rules
6	eat	past	I					of the food; gladly property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent of food=Source
7	put	past	tailor	the food not said here			before me		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent food=Theme before i=Destination
8	accept	past	I not said here	tailor's offer of a lodging		tailor's house			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent offer=Theme
9	offer		tailor	a lodging					nom offer «communication transitive»: poss=agent 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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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