The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 10, sentence 11

At the end of about fifty days we cast anchor before a large town, and the ship was immediately surrounded by a multitude of small boats filled with people, who had come either to meet their friends or from simple curiosity.

Who acts: we, multitude, people · What happens: anchor, surround, fill, come, meet · To what, where: end, ship, small boats, friends

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, multitude, people), 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	At	at	ADP	_	3 end	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 end	det
3	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 anchor	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 days	case
5	about	about	ADV	_	6 fifty	advmod
6	fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 days	nummod
7	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 end	nmod
8	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 anchor	nsubj
9	cast	cast	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 anchor	aux
10	anchor	anchor	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	before	before	ADP	_	14 town	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 town	det
13	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 town	amod
14	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 anchor	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 surrounded	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 surrounded	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 ship	det
18	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 surrounded	nsubj:pass
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 surrounded	aux:pass
20	immediately	immediately	ADV	_	21 surrounded	advmod
21	surrounded	surround	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 anchor	advcl
22	by	by	ADP	_	24 multitude	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 multitude	det
24	multitude	multitude	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 surrounded	obl:agent
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 boats	case
26	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 boats	amod
27	boats	boat	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 multitude	nmod
28	filled	fill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 boats	acl
29	with	with	ADP	_	30 people	case
30	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 filled	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 come	punct
32	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 come	nsubj
33	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 come	aux
34	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	30 people	acl:relcl
35	either	either	ADV	PronType=Ind	34 come	advmod
36	to	to	PART	_	37 meet	mark
37	meet	meet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 come	advcl
38	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 friends	nmod:poss
39	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 meet	obj
40	or	or	CCONJ	_	43 curiosity	cc
41	from	from	ADP	_	43 curiosity	case
42	simple	simple	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 curiosity	amod
43	curiosity	curiosity	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 friends	conj
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 anchor	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	anchor		we		at the end of fifty days; before a large town		vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
2	surround	past · passive	a multitude of small boats	the ship		immediately property	vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Co-Theme
3	fill	participle		small boats not said here		with people	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with people=Instrument
4	come	past · perfect	people			either property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	meet	to-infinitive	people not said here	people's friends or simple curiosity			vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Co-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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