The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 11, sentence 28
A moment after the vessels fell asunder and sank, the crews with them.
Who acts: moment · What happens: fall, sink · To what, where: asunder, crews
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 (moment), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 moment | det |
| 2 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fell | nsubj |
| 3 | after | after | ADP | _ | 5 vessels | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 vessels | det |
| 5 | vessels | vessel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 moment | nmod |
| 6 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | asunder | asunder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fell | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 sank | cc |
| 9 | sank | sink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 fell | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 crews | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 crews | det |
| 12 | crews | crew | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 sank | obl |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 them | case |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 crews | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past | a moment after the vessels | asunder | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient asunder=Result | ||||
| 2 | sink | past | a moment after the vessels not said here | the crews with vessels | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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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