The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 11, sentence 17
When they were properly fitted out I embarked on my expedition.
Who acts: I · What happens: fit out, embark · To what, where: voyages, expedition
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 (I), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 fitted | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 fitted | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 fitted | aux:pass |
| 4 | properly | properly | ADV | _ | 5 fitted | advmod |
| 5 | fitted | fit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 embarked | advcl |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 5 fitted | compound:prt |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 embarked | nsubj |
| 8 | embarked | embark | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 expedition | case |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 expedition | nmod:poss |
| 11 | expedition | expedition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 embarked | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 embarked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fit out | past · passive | voyages = voyage | properly property | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | embark | past | I | my expedition | tree rules |
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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