The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 9, sentence 64

But his character soon won him the esteem of all, and the envious man's hatred grew, till he came here with the deliberate intention of causing his death.

Who acts: character, hatred, man, deliberate intention · What happens: win, grow, come, cause, die · To what, where: esteem, man, death

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 (character, hatred, man, deliberate intention), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 won	cc
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 character	nmod:poss
3	character	character	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 won	nsubj
4	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 won	advmod
5	won	win	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 won	obj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 esteem	det
8	esteem	esteem	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 won	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 all	case
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 esteem	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 grew	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 grew	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 man	det
14	envious	envious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 man	amod
15	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 hatred	nmod:poss
16	's	's	PART	_	15 man	case
17	hatred	hatred	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 grew	nsubj
18	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 won	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 came	punct
20	till	till	SCONJ	_	22 came	mark
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 came	nsubj
22	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 grew	advcl
23	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	22 came	advmod
24	with	with	ADP	_	27 intention	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 intention	det
26	deliberate	deliberate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 intention	amod
27	intention	intention	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 came	obl
28	of	of	SCONJ	_	29 causing	mark
29	causing	cause	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	27 intention	acl
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 death	nmod:poss
31	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 causing	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 won	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	win	past	man's character	the esteem of all	man		soon property	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary esteem=Theme
2	grow	past	the envious man's hatred					vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	come	past	man			here	with the deliberate intention	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	cause	gerund	the deliberate intention not said here	man's death				vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition death=Patient
5	die		man					nom death «event intransitive»: poss=agent

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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