The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 10, sentence 4
I travelled towards it, and was pleased to see a vessel moored about half a mile from shore.
Who acts: I, vessel · What happens: travel, be, see, moor · To what, where: plain, vessel, mile, shore
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 (I, vessel), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 travelled | nsubj |
| 2 | travelled | travel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 4 it | case |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 travelled | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 pleased | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 pleased | cc |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 pleased | cop |
| 8 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 travelled | conj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 see | mark |
| 10 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 pleased | xcomp |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 vessel | det |
| 12 | vessel | vessel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 see | obj |
| 13 | moored | moor | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 vessel | acl |
| 14 | about | about | ADV | _ | 15 half | advmod |
| 15 | half | half | DET | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind | 17 mile | det:predet |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 mile | det |
| 17 | mile | mile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 moored | obj |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 shore | case |
| 19 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 mile | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 travelled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | travel | past | I | plain | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards it=Destination | ||||
| 2 | is | past | I not said here | pleased property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | see | to-infinitive | I not said here | a vessel | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer vessel=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | moor | participle | a vessel not said here | half mile | shore | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V ADVP»: agent=Theme mile=Destination |
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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