The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 8, sentence 61
Even on the first day I cut enough wood to sell for a tolerable sum, and very soon I became more expert, and had made enough money to repay the tailor all he had lent me.
Who acts: I, tailor · What happens: cut, sell, become, make, repay, lend · To what, where: enough wood, more expert, enough money, tailor, me
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 | Even | even | ADV | _ | 5 day | advmod |
| 2 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 day | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 day | det |
| 4 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 day | amod |
| 5 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cut | obl |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 cut | nsubj |
| 7 | cut | cut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | enough | enough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 wood | amod |
| 9 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cut | obj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 sell | mark |
| 11 | sell | sell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 cut | advcl |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 sum | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 sum | det |
| 14 | tolerable | tolerable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 sum | amod |
| 15 | sum | sum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sell | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 became | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 became | cc |
| 18 | very | very | ADV | _ | 19 soon | advmod |
| 19 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 21 became | advmod |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 became | nsubj |
| 21 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 cut | parataxis |
| 22 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 23 expert | amod |
| 23 | expert | expert | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 became | xcomp |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 made | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 made | cc |
| 26 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 made | aux |
| 27 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 21 became | parataxis |
| 28 | enough | enough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 money | amod |
| 29 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 made | obj |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 repay | mark |
| 31 | repay | repay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 made | advcl |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 tailor | det |
| 33 | tailor | tailor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 repay | obj |
| 34 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 33 tailor | conj |
| 35 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 lent | nsubj |
| 36 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 lent | aux |
| 37 | lent | lend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 34 all | acl:relcl |
| 38 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 37 lent | obj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 cut | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cut | present | I | enough wood | day | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wood=Product | |||
| 2 | sell | to-infinitive | I not said here | for a tolerable sum | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent for sum=Asset | ||||
| 3 | become | past | I | more expert | soon property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | |||
| 4 | make | past · perfect | enough money | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset money=Product | |||||
| 5 | repay | to-infinitive | the tailor | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tailor=Recipient | |||||
| 6 | lend | past · perfect | tailor | me | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
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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