The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 9, sentence 47

So he sold his house and the little furniture it contained, and moved into the capital of the country, which was luckily at no great distance.

Who acts: man, enemy, country · What happens: sell, contain, move, be · To what, where: house, little furniture, capital

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, enemy, country), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 sold	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sold	nsubj
3	sold	sell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 house	nmod:poss
5	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sold	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 furniture	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 furniture	det
8	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 furniture	amod
9	furniture	furniture	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 house	conj
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 contained	nsubj
11	contained	contain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 furniture	acl:relcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 moved	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 moved	cc
14	moved	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sold	conj
15	into	into	ADP	_	17 capital	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 capital	det
17	capital	capital	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 moved	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 country	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 country	det
20	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 capital	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 distance	punct
22	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 distance	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 distance	cop
24	luckily	luckily	ADV	_	28 distance	advmod
25	at	at	ADP	_	28 distance	case
26	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	28 distance	det
27	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 distance	amod
28	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 country	conj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sold	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sell	past	man	man's house and the little furniture			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Theme
2	contain	past	enemy	the little furniture not said here			vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot furniture=Theme
3	move	past	man not said here		the capital of the country and no great distance		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into capital=Trajectory
4	is	past	the country and no great distance			at no great distance; luckily property	tree rules

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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