The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 9, sentence 63

This man, from pure goodness of heart, forsook the town where he lived and came to dwell here, in the hope of curing one of his neighbours of the envy he felt towards him.

Who acts: man, hope · What happens: forsake, live, come, dwell, cure, feel · To what, where: town, hope, one, envy

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, hope), 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	This	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 man	det
2	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 forsook	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 goodness	punct
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 goodness	case
5	pure	pure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 goodness	amod
6	goodness	goodness	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 man	appos
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 heart	case
8	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 goodness	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 man	punct
10	forsook	forsake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 town	det
12	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 forsook	obj
13	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	15 lived	advmod
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 lived	nsubj
15	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 town	acl:relcl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 came	cc
17	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 lived	conj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 dwell	mark
19	dwell	dwell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 came	xcomp
20	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	19 dwell	advmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 hope	punct
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 hope	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 hope	det
24	hope	hope	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 dwell	obl
25	of	of	SCONJ	_	26 curing	mark
26	curing	cure	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	24 hope	acl
27	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 curing	obj
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 neighbours	case
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 neighbours	nmod:poss
30	neighbours	neighbour	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 one	nmod
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 envy	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 envy	det
33	envy	envy	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 neighbours	nmod
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 felt	nsubj
35	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 envy	acl:relcl
36	towards	towards	ADP	_	37 him	case
37	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 felt	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 forsook	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	forsake	past	this man	the town			tree rules
2	live	past	man				vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	come	past	man not said here				tree rules
4	dwell	to-infinitive	man not said here		the hope; here		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hope=Location
5	cure	gerund	the hope not said here	one of man's neighbours of the envy			vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer one=Source
6	feel	past	man	the envy not said here		towards hope	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent envy=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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