The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 9, sentence 52
So he left his house and his business to look after themselves, and betook himself to the new dervish monastery, where he was welcomed by the founder with all the warmth imaginable.
Who acts: fame, founder · What happens: leave, look, betake, welcome · To what, where: house, fame
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 (fame, founder), 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 left | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 left | nsubj |
| 3 | left | leave | 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 left | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 business | cc |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 business | nmod:poss |
| 8 | business | business | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 house | conj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 look | mark |
| 10 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 left | advcl |
| 11 | after | after | ADP | _ | 12 themselves | case |
| 12 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 10 look | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 betook | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 betook | cc |
| 15 | betook | betake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 left | conj |
| 16 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 15 betook | obj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 monastery | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 monastery | det |
| 19 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 monastery | amod |
| 20 | dervish | dervish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 monastery | compound |
| 21 | monastery | monastery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 betook | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 welcomed | punct |
| 23 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 26 welcomed | advmod |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 welcomed | nsubj:pass |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 welcomed | aux:pass |
| 26 | welcomed | welcome | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 monastery | conj |
| 27 | by | by | ADP | _ | 29 founder | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 founder | det |
| 29 | founder | founder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 welcomed | obl |
| 30 | with | with | ADP | _ | 33 warmth | case |
| 31 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 33 warmth | det:predet |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 warmth | det |
| 33 | warmth | warmth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 founder | nmod |
| 34 | imaginable | imaginable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 warmth | amod |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past | fame | fame's house and fame's business | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Theme | ||||
| 2 | look | to-infinitive | fame not said here | after houses = house | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | betake | past | fame not said here | fame | to the new dervish monastery | tree rules | |||
| 4 | welcome | past · passive | the founder with all warmth | fame | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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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