The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 11, sentence 16
These voyages gave me such a taste for sailing that I soon determined to explore more distant seas, and commanded a fleet of large ships to be got ready without delay.
Who acts: voyages, I · What happens: give, determine, explore, command, get · To what, where: taste, me, distant seas, fleet · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (voyages, I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg128:945): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 2 voyages | det |
| 2 | voyages | voyage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 gave | nsubj |
| 3 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 gave | iobj |
| 5 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 taste | det:predet |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 taste | det |
| 7 | taste | taste | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | obj |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 sailing | case |
| 9 | sailing | sailing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 taste | nmod |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 determined | mark |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 determined | nsubj |
| 12 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 determined | advmod |
| 13 | determined | determine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 gave | advcl |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 explore | mark |
| 15 | explore | explore | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 determined | xcomp |
| 16 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 17 distant | advmod |
| 17 | distant | distant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 seas | amod |
| 18 | seas | sea | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 explore | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 commanded | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 commanded | cc |
| 21 | commanded | command | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 determined | conj |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 fleet | det |
| 23 | fleet | fleet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 commanded | obj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 ships | case |
| 25 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 ships | amod |
| 26 | ships | ship | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 fleet | nmod |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 got | mark |
| 28 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 29 got | aux:pass |
| 29 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 commanded | xcomp |
| 30 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 got | xcomp |
| 31 | without | without | ADP | _ | 32 delay | case |
| 32 | delay | delay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 got | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | this voyages | such taste | me | for sailing | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent i=Recipient taste=Theme for sailing=Asset | ||
| 2 | determine | past | I | soon property | vn discover-84 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | explore | to-infinitive | I not said here | distant seas | vn investigate-35.4 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent sea=Location | ||||
| 4 | command | past | I not said here | a fleet of large ships | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent fleet=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | get not said to happen | to-infinitive · passive | I not said here | without delay; ready property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING» |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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